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zigaboo

zigaboo is the alternative form of ziggaboo.

Meaning of ziggaboo

Noun

ziggaboo (plural ziggaboos)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, slur, African-American Vernacular) A nigger, negro; synonym of jigaboo.
    • Right now she got money enough in de bank tuh buy up dese ziggaboos and give ’em away.”1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 148

Forms of zigaboo

pluralzigaboos

Questions about zigaboo

What is zigaboo the alternative form of?
Zigaboo is the alternative form of ziggaboo.

Words near zigaboo in the dictionary

  1. zig when one should zag
  2. zig-zag
  3. zig-zagged
  4. zig-zagging
  5. zig-zags
  6. zigaboo
  7. zigaboos
  8. zigadene
  9. zigadenes
  10. zigamorph
  11. zigamorphs

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