thicklips
thicklips noun: a black person.
Noun
thicklips (plural thicklips)
- A black person.
- The red man was born here; the pale man was born across the salt lake; the black man came from a country of his own, where the sun is always above his head. What of that? We are brothers. The Thicklips (this was the name by which the strangers designated Jaaf, as we afterward learned) is the friend...1846, James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin
- a 'thicklips' with woolly hair1994, John Gillies, Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference, page 26
Examples of thicklips in a sentence
- The Thicklips (this was the name by which the strangers designated Jaaf, as we afterward learned) is the friend of Susquesus.1846, James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin:
- […] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker.2012, Michael Rogers, Coconut Shells, page 3:
- Thicklips—this word is European in origin and gives reference to historical European classification of races in Africa.2015, Avis J. Smith, African American: The Opposition Court Case, page 3:
Forms of thicklips
| plural | thicklips |
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Origin of thicklips
thick + lips
Questions about thicklips
- What does thicklips mean?
- Thicklips means a black person.
- How do you use thicklips in a sentence?
- The Thicklips (this was the name by which the strangers designated Jaaf, as we afterward learned) is the friend of Susquesus.
- What part of speech is thicklips?
- Thicklips is a noun.
- What is the plural of thicklips?
- The plural of thicklips is thicklips.
Words near thicklips in the dictionary
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