Meaning

5 senses
  1. (offensive, often, slang, vulgar)A close and loyal friend.

    I'd never betray you, 'cause you my nigga, man.

  2. (offensive, often, slang, vulgar)A black person (usually a male friend), especially an African American.

    As soon as I walked into the class and saw that sea of white faces, I felt alone, so I sat next to the only other nigga there.

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    (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person

  3. (offensive, often, slang, vulgar)Any person, though chiefly male.

    White niggas do be like, this is too spicy.

    All these freshman niggas are so annoying.

  4. (offensive, often, slang, vulgar)A male, especially an adult one, as opposed to a female.

  5. (vulgar)A type of acrographic lexical list included in Old Babylonian scribal curriculum.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. He's my nigga.

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  2. Kill that nigga.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
ethnic slur:

Origin

From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of nigger. Of Old Akkadian origin. Unrelated to

From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of nigger.

Of Old Akkadian origin. Unrelated to Etymology 1.

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