单词 | nigger-shooter |
释义 | > as lemmasnigger-shooter nigger-shooter n. U.S. slang (offensive now rare) a catapult. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun] > catapult manubalista1460 catapult1577 siege engine1763 slingshot1849 shanghai1863 nigger-shooter1876 catty1893 1876 E. W. Heap Diary 26 Feb. in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. (1969) lii. 53 I had a job on hand making Nigger shooters for Dr's children. 1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 172 All you wanted to do was to tear out with those Toughs and kill Birds with Nigger-Shooters. 1996 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 18 Jan. 2 a The slingshot in those days had a nickname that was decidedly not politically correct..it was a nigger-shooter. < as lemmas |
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