popolos

Noun

popolo (countable and uncountable, plural popolos)

1. (Hawaii) black nightshade (Solanum nigrum).
   • The only lack of Kalelealuaka and his comrades was animal food (literally fish) but they supplied its place as well as they could with such herbs as the tender leaves of the popolo, which they cooked like spinach, and with inamona made from the roasted nuts of the kukui tree.1883, All about Hawaii, page 36
2. (Hawaii, countable, pejorative, slang, sometimes) A black person.
   • Well, I'm a Hawaiian, but my father was a black-assed popolo—a Portuguese from Bravas, Cabo Verde Islands, who changed his name.2004, Miles M. Jackson, Social Process in Hawaii - Volume 43, page 92