Ninja

Quick meaning: Ninja is a noun meaning (figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

Meaning

(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

More Meanings

1. (euphemistic, African-American Vernacular) Synonym of nigga as a friendly term of address.
2. (euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.
3. (informal) Fast and sneaky.
4. (ambitransitive) To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.
5. (martial arts) A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.
6. (figurative) A person considered to look like the historical ninja in some way, including (historical slang) an amateur private miner in Mongolia.
7. (Internet slang) to beat someone to a post; to make the same reply just before the other party finishes typing, making their response redundant.

Example Sentences

He used to work in the Japanese agency as a ninja.

The men... are now learning to be ninja or ‘stealers-in’.

A JavaScript ninja should write lots of code and build things!

Spies prowled Japan from the seventh century, but the secretive ninja left few written records.

Word Forms

• ninjas
• ninjaing
• ninjaed
• ninja'd

Synonyms for ninja

Depending on context, synonyms include assassin, spy, killer, superspy, magician.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jujutsuka, judoka, sneak, sniper, judoist, knifesman.

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