nigger shooter

plural nigger shooters

1. USethnicslangslurA catapult or slingshot.

   Any person who shall shoot an airgun, “nigger shooter,” catapult or such like device, […]

   1943, The Code of the City of Houston, Texas, page 605

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   A slingshot was commonly referred to as a nigger-shooter, for instance, during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. “Gee mister, will you show us how to use a nigger-shooter,” implored one Texas youth of a local expert marksman.

   2022, Terry Anne Scott, Lynching and Leisure, page 161