Niggatown

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From nigga +‎ town.

Noun

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Niggatown (plural Niggatowns)

  1. (slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes offensive, sometimes ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by black people.
    • 1991, Julian Lee Rayford, Cottonmouth (Library of Alabama classics)‎[1], University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:
      The morning of the fourth day, Leroy, a little colored boy, came to Nick and said, “I know where you' goat is, Nick!” And took Nick over by Davis Avenue, where Niggatown begins, and back of a butcher shop, on the ground, they found Billy's head.
    • 2007 November 22, greg3347, “Re: TNB: Congresscoon Playing The RACE Card”, in alt.law-enforcement[2] (Usenet):
      > CHICAGO - U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-7th Niggatown District) said
      > Wednesday he bez a VICTIM of RACISM!
    • 2016 February 23, Omar Tyree, Capital City[3], Urban Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      I'm getting off the B6 bus in Chinatown. But that's fucked up, because what happened to Niggatown? D.C. supposed to be 75 percent black, and we ain't got no Niggatown. I should call up comedian Paul Mooney and say, “Yo, D.C. ain't got no Niggatown, black. What's up wit' dat?”

Synonyms

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  • Coontown (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur)
  • Niggertown (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur)