nigger chaser

plural nigger chasers

1. USethnicslangslurA kind of bottle rocket firework without the stick.

   There's sure to be fireworks there. […] Rockets and Roman candles and torpedoes and whirligigs and nigger chasers and pinwheels.

   1924 July, Boys' Life, page 5

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   Each had been given two dollars. Enough money to fill a good sized paper sack with a mix of sparklers, crackers, “dago bombs,” and “nigger chasers.”

   2007, George C. Zidbeck, Kid Scorpion: The War Years, page 49

   A “nigger chaser,” another name for a Texas Twister firework, would travel in all kinds of directions on the ground making a whistling noise and then finally popping with a loud bang.

   2019, Dr. Rickey L. Harman, Happy Days in Happy, Texas