niggerball

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noun

A large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy).

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounniggerball (countable and uncountable, plural niggerballs)

plural niggerballs

  1. South AfricacountabledatedoffensiveA large black gobstopper (a long-lasting candy).

    1972, Contrast, Volume 8, South African Literary Journal Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny. When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can't bite them until you've sucked them small or you'll chip your teeth.

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    That the words of Jeremy Taylor's Ag Pleez, Deddy have been changed to suit the times? No longer " … how we miss niggerballs and licorice … " but " … how we miss bullseyes and … " Ag pleez, Jeremy.

    1979, Financial Mail, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

    niggerballs and liquorice and the soft, brightly-coloured squares that the children loved.

    2006, Jocelyn Howe, Crest of eagles
  2. USderogatoryethnicoffensivesluruncountableThe sport of basketball.

    […] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]

    2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder
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    It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves.

    2002, Lieberal Death, “Your TV viewing for This Evening”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet)

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APA

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