nigger knocker

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nigger knocker

noun nigger knockers · nigger-knocker

  1. US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur A nightstick or a similar weapon. She knew “who was going with who and when they were doing it and what night of the week they were doing it.” And when the detectives were using the “burrhead sticks” or “nigger knockers” on some poor blacks, she would have to leave […]
  2. US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur A wooden baton used by truckers to check the tire pressure.
  3. Southern US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur One who participates in an act of nigger knocking. Curiously, the militant black leaders with whom I have discussed "nigger-knocking" are remarkably unconcerned. One mentions several hundred black bodies a year littering the Southern roads, and the black leaders reply: “Hell, we lose that many each year just in Newark because of narcotics or bad hou

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@misc{nigger_knocker_2026,
  title = {nigger knocker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nigger%20knocker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}