nigger

1. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.Examples: "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither."; "“Othello with his occupation gone,” she teased. “Othello was a nigger,” I said."; "You are not even a nigger, you are an African."ethnicoffensiveslurvulgar

2. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.Examples: "There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up."; "See, niggers are followers, blacks normally lead. Niggers call blacks "whitewash" soon as they on the scene."; "Blacks stayed at home during the civil rights march. Niggers are the ones that marched."ethnicoffensiveslangslurvulgar

3. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).Examples: "He never lost his appetite - He bigger grew and bigger; And proved, with every inch of height, A nigger is a nigger."; "Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading ‘nigger’ theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races."; ""The public have taken no interest in the matter up to now, but this letter of Challenger's in the Times will make them wake up, I'm thinking." "And this about Sumatra?" "Well, it's a long cry from a blurred line in a spectrum to a sick nigger in Sumatra. And yet the chiel has shown us once before that he knows what he's talking about.""ethnicoffensiveslurvulgar

4. (African-American Vernacular) A friend, particularly a fellow black person (often as an informal term of address).Examples: "“Snoop Dog!” one of them yelled. “That’s my nigga from Long Beach, man.”"; "I wonna say whassup to all my Niggers, you know, peace and one love."; "I had overheard him greet a buddy who called him on the phone with "Yo, nigger, what's up?""Synonyms: homie, nigga

5. (figurative, especially African-American Vernacular, otherwise offensive) A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).Examples: "People be surprised. I have friends who're all kinds a letters. Everybody loves me an' I love everybody. I got friends who are Ls, I got friends who are Bs, and I got friends who are Gs. But the Ts hate my fucking guts. And I don't blame 'em! It's not their fault. It's mine. I can't stop tellin' jokes about these niggas."figuratively

6. (especially in comparisons, now offensive) A member of a group that is oppressed or marginalized in the manner of black people.Examples: "The governor made it into office by campaigning against the niggers. And people should understand who the niggers are. It's the elderly one week. Then it's those on public assistance. Now he sees women as niggers, and he's trying to do them in."; "It's time for somebody to lead all of America's Niggers," he said at the Capitol Hill press conference when Shirley Chisholm announced she was running for president, "and by this I mean the Young, the Black, the Brown, the Women, the Poor—all the people who feel left out of the political process. If we can put the Nigger Vote together, we can bring about some real change in this country.""; "Woman Is the Nigger of the World"especiallyoffensive