jigaboon.
/ˈdʒɪɡəbuː/ U.S. slang (depreciative and offensive).
A black person; an African American.
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1909 Weston & Barnes I've got Rings on my Fingers (song) So come to your na-bob, and next Pat-rick's Day Be Mis-tress Mum-bo Jum-bo Jij-ji-boo J. O'Shea.
1929 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 13 Apr. 54/4 Jigaboo (underworld).
1929 T. Gordon Born to Be 236 Zigaboo, Dinge, Jasper, nicknames for Ethiopians.
1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/1 Me broad's squawkin' the jiggabo hop tries to make her.
1935 J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan iv. 87 Yes, but the pupils are all jiggabooes, and the parish is very poor now, I guess.
1935 D. Runyon Money from Home 6 I will take Follow You and that ziggaboo jock of his in the Gold Vase for mine against any horse and any amateur rider in the world.
1940 W. R. Burnett High Sierra vi. 35 ‘Yeah,’ said Red, ‘I think the zigaboo has got your cabin all set.’
1944 Amer. Speech 19 174 Such vulgar synonyms for Negro as..jazzbo, jigabo (with the variants, jibagoo, jig, zigabo, zigaboo, zig).
1961 J. H. Griffin Black like Me (1962) 57 The Negro..hearing himself referred to as nigger, coon, jigaboo!
1970 L. Sanders Anderson Tapes lix. 160 The tall one..was a jigaboo.
1973 Washington Post 11 Mar. 6/6 ‘All that is left back there is a bunch of boos’—short for ‘jigaboos’, a derogatory term for blacks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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