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The Collaborative International Dictionary
jigaboo

jigaboo \jig"a*boo\ n. A negro, especially an African-American; -- an offensive term usually intended as an ethnic slur. [vulgar and offensive]

Syn: nigger, spade, coon, nigra.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jigaboo

insulting name for "a black person," 1909, perhaps from jig (q.v.), which had been applied insultingly to persons since late 18c., and ending from bugaboo.

Wiktionary
jigaboo

alt. 1 (context offensive slang dated English) A black person 2 (context offensive slang dated English) Any dark-skinned person (frequently an Arab or Middle Eastern person). n. 1 (context offensive slang dated English) A black person 2 (context offensive slang dated English) Any dark-skinned person (frequently an Arab or Middle Eastern person).

WordNet
jigaboo

n. (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigger, nigga, spade, coon, nigra]

Usage examples of "jigaboo".

Only Vernon Knecht and some other friends called me Jigaboo as a nickname to remind me of my victory.

If Susie scared him, then what happened to Jigaboo must have given him the screaming meemies.

Likely Jigaboo was playing around in the woods and saw him bury it, that afternoon.

Now, Chief Parker and I are convinced that the three Negroes in custody are our perpetrators, or, at the very most, another jigaboo gang is responsible.

Taking care of the books was just the job for a jigaboo captain who had been the honor graduate of the Advanced Course at Knox.

Speaking of our colored brethren, how did it feel to shoot those two jigaboos, Bucky?

The pinko Democrats have taken the tack of jigaboos wrongly accused, intend to press the issue during the primary elections, and the Republican A.

The jigaboos sounded like they were doing some really angry, fucked-up poems to a jungle beat and it was hard to understand everything they said.

They hit the Central Avenue Strip, daytime quiet, a block of spangly facades: the Taj Mahal, palm trees hung with Christmas lights, sequined music clefs, zebra stripes and a big plaster jigaboo with shiny red eyes.

They hit the Central Avenue Strip, daytime quiet, a block of spangly facades: the Taj Mahal, palm trees hung with Christmas lights, sequined music clefs, zebra stripes and a big plaster jigaboo with shiny red eyes.

We check out the bars and liquor stores and haul out the bad jigaboos.