nigger shooter

English

Noun

nigger shooter (plural nigger shooters)

  1. (US, slang, ethnic slur) A catapult or slingshot.
    • 1943, The Code of the City of Houston, Texas, page 605:
      Any person who shall shoot an airgun, “nigger shooter,” catapult or such like device, […]
    • 2022, Terry Anne Scott, Lynching and Leisure, page 161:
      A slingshot was commonly referred to as a nigger-shooter, for instance, during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. “Gee mister, will you show us how to use a nigger-shooter,” implored one Texas youth of a local expert marksman.
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