Meaning

(slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person's skin..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person's skin.
2. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, metonymic) A black person.

Example Sentences

A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins.

Those with nothing to hock could always sell their loved one's hide to a tannery for the niggerskin trade....

”I want to get me a nigger toe to hang from my rear view mirror! I thought about niggerskin fuckin' upholstery and maybe even scalping a few of these jigaboos and having my dashboard padded with nigger-hair but that means I'd have to be here all fuckin' day man and this fuckin' school bugs me.”

The voices had begun to circle silently and secretly and purposefully. “You're from Jap-pan pan pan niggerskin, and you made Pearl Harbor where we got you. Rat-ta-tat-tat!”

So are many of the quiet, orderly scenes in the school's halls. Children come back from recess on the run, pushing and shoving. One child three days in a row yells, “Niggerskins, niggerskins,” at another who is foreign-born.

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Use niggerskin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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