niggergram

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English

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Etymology

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From nigger +‎ -gram.

Noun

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niggergram (plural niggergrams)

  1. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) The informal circulation of gossip by black people.
    • 1974, Fiction, volumes 3-5, page 7:
      Porke is unaware of the fact that one of his most trusted slaves, through niggergrams, is keeping the four informed of Porke 's every move.
    • 2006, Pamela Mordecai, Pink Icing and Other Stories, page 32:
      Truth to tell, the niggergram can always count on Pansy and the boys.
    • 2007, Raoul Pantin, Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago:
      From the gunmen all over that television station that Friday night, there was almost a running commentary, a grapevine, a constant up to date “niggergram,” to use the Trinidad word, on events at the Red House downtown []