nigger knocking

noun

Etymology

In sense 2, perhaps influenced by knick-knock, another name for the same prank.

Definitions

  1. A racial assault by a group of white people, typically bored youths in a truck or car, on…

    A racial assault by a group of white people, typically bored youths in a truck or car, on one or more black people, typically a random pedestrian.

  2. Ding-dong ditch.

    • 33. Ding Dong Ditch — Prank involving ringing a doorbell and running from the house (also Ding Dong Door Ditch, Nigger Knocking)
    • In Sanford Heights the preadolescent prank of ringing a doorbell and running away before the door was answered was known as “Nigger Knocking” as well as by its more common name, “Ding Dong Ditch.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA