outnigger

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verb

To outsmart or deceive.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verboutnigger (third-person singular simple present outniggers, present participle outniggering, simple past and past participle outniggered)

present singular third person outniggers · participle present outniggering · participle past outniggered · past outniggered

  1. derogatoryoffensivetransitiveTo outsmart or deceive.

    The defeat of Lester Maddox, whose try for a second term as governor was decisively blocked in the recent Georgia Democratic primary, confirms that “outniggering the opposition," as Wallace once put it, is no longer a sufficient strategy […]

    1974, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates
    2 more examples

    The PM's culpability will not stop him attending the ceremony; nor will the Asylum Act deter Straw from showing up. The Tories propose to outnigger him at the election by campaigning on a promise that refugees who are accused of no crime but asking for a safe haven should be locked up without trial in internment camps.

    2000, Nick Cohen, “The Holocaust as show business”, in New Statesman

    As a federal judge in the 1950s, Wallace developed a reputation for fairness and tolerance—relative to the norms of Alabama at the time—and the NAACP endorsed his first gubernatorial campaign in 1958. But after his KKK-backed opponent trounced him in the race, Wallace confided to an aide, “I was outniggered by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again.”

    2010, Michael Wolraich, Blowing Smoke

Origin

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