hairyback

plural hairybacks

1. A gastrotrich.
2. South AfricaderogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurA white Afrikaner.

   I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.

   1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27

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   A mistake which is often made by our South African militants is to assume that we are cleverer than the police, that we can out-manoeuvre the 'hairybacks' and the 'rock spiders'[…]

   1986, Breyten Breytenbach, The true confessions of an albino terrorist, page 344

   […]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

   1990, Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams, page 54