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porch monkey

porch monkey noun: a lazy black person.

Noun

porch monkey (plural porch monkeys)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A lazy black person.
    • "[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6
    • “Look Jake, you need a real partner, you know what I mean, a real white partner, not that overweight porch monkey. . . ; we whites have to stick together.”2006, Lee Kohn, Shadows of Rage, →ISBN, page 29

Forms of porch monkey

pluralporch monkeys

Questions about porch monkey

What does porch monkey mean?
Porch monkey means a lazy black person.
What part of speech is porch monkey?
Porch monkey is a noun.
What is the plural of porch monkey?
The plural of porch monkey is porch monkeys.

Words near porch monkey in the dictionary

  1. porcellionids
  2. Porcellis
  3. Porcello
  4. Porcellos
  5. porch
  6. porch monkey
  7. porch monkeys
  8. porch piracy
  9. porch pirate
  10. porch pirates
  11. porch swing

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