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jigaboo U.S. coarse slang.|ˈdʒɪgəbuː|
Also jiggabo, jijjiboo, zigabo, etc.
[Related to jig n.2 after bugaboo.]
A Black person, a Negro.
Like jig n.2, a term that gives offence.
1909Weston & Barnes I've got Rings on my Fingers (song), So come to your na-bob, and next Pat-rick's Day Be Mis-tress Mum-bo Jum-bo Jij-ji-boo J. O'Shea. 1929Sat. Even. Post 13 Apr. 54/4 Jigaboo (underworld). 1929T. Gordon Born to Be 236 Zigaboo, Dinge, Jasper, nicknames for Ethiopians. 1930Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/1 Me broad's squawkin' the jiggabo hop tries to make her. 1935J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan iv. 87 Yes, but the pupils are all jiggabooes, and the parish is very poor now, I guess. 1935D. Runyon Money from Home 6, I will take Follow You and that ziggaboo jock of his in the Gold Vase for mine against any horse and any amateur rider in the world. 1940W. R. Burnett High Sierra vi. 35 ‘Yeah,’ said Red, ‘I think the zigaboo has got your cabin all set.’ 1944Amer. Speech XIX. 174 Such vulgar synonyms for Negro as..jazzbo, jigabo (with the variants, jibagoo, jig, zigabo, zigaboo, zig). 1961J. H. Griffin Black like Me (1962) 57 The Negro..hearing himself referred to as nigger, coon, jigaboo! 1970L. Sanders Anderson Tapes lix. 160 The tall one..was a jigaboo. 1973Washington Post 11 Mar. 6/6 ‘All that is left back there is a bunch of boos’—short for ‘jigaboos’, a derogatory term for blacks. |