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spear-chucker

spear-chucker is the alternative form of spearchucker.

Meaning of spearchucker

Noun

spearchucker (plural spearchuckers)

  1. (Australia, UK, US, ethnic, offensive, slang) A black (African or African-American or an Aboriginal Australian) person.
    • The other night, Jackson's on the radio asking if anybody in the area has seen two spearchuckers winging it off on foot with a pile of nigger clothes in their hands. Jesus Christ. Spearchuckers? Niggers? The guy's KKK material.1983, Maurice Punch, Control in the Police Organization, MIT Press
  2. (Australia, humorous) An agitator.
    • O’Dwyer is seen by the Kroger people as a spear-chucker for everything anti-Kroger.2017, John Ferguson, Today in Victoria: A Peter Costello return makes no sense

Forms of spear-chucker

pluralspear-chuckers

Questions about spear-chucker

What is spear-chucker the alternative form of?
Spear-chucker is the alternative form of spearchucker.

Words near spear-chucker in the dictionary

  1. spear thistles
  2. spear tip
  3. spear tips
  4. spear-carrier
  5. spear-carriers
  6. spear-chucker
  7. spear-chuckers
  8. spear-head
  9. spear-heads
  10. spear-penny
  11. spear-point

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spear-chucker (page history and authors); spearchucker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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