wigga

Noun (1)

wigger (plural wiggers)

1. A maker of wigs.
   • I flounder about for my diplomacy and give up; it is simply one man against four wiggers, that much is clear, and they are going to fight me down to the wire. "This girl does not need a wig at all," I am forced to say yet once more.1984, Arthur Miller, Salesman in Beijing, page 184

Noun (2)

wigger (plural wiggers)

1. (derogatory, ethnic, slur) A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.
   • I have often heard the word "wigger" used to describe a white person who supposedly acts and talks "black," while the same type of taunting is put upon a black person who supposedly acts "white."1988 April 20, “How race-conscious are high school students today?”, in The Washington Post, number ?, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, column ?
2. (broadly, imprecise) A nonblack person of any race considered to be inauthentically appropriating black culture and behavior.
3. (dated, uncommon, African-American Vernacular) A white person considered to be sincerely appreciative of black culture, as opposed to poseurs and wannabes.
   • The Oprah people were on the phone with my mom. Someone had given them my name as an expert on wiggers. You know, Wiggers. White kids who identify themselves with hip-hop. I was an expert on that.1994 July 7, William Upski Wimsatt, “Wigger”, in Chicago Reader

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