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a. Used as a disparaging term for a black person:"You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger"(James Baldwin).
b. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
2. Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people.
[Alteration ofdialectalneger, black person, fromFrenchnègre, fromSpanishnegro; see NEGRO.]