Meanings
plural niggerballs
- 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 - USderogatoryethnicoffensivesluruncountableThe sport of basketball.
[…] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]
2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder1 more example
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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