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spearchucker

noun

Etymology

From spear + chucker, in the offensive sense, alluding to a stereotype of Africans as primitive savages who use spears in hunting and war.

  1. derived from schocken — “to bump, shake”
  2. derived from chuquier — “to collide, strike”
  3. inherited from chokken — “to thrust, pierce, cram”
  4. formed as chucker — “chuck + -er”
  5. compounded as spearchucker — “spear + chucker”

Definitions

  1. A black (African or African-American or an Aboriginal Australian) person.

    • The other night, Jackson's on the radio asking if anybody in the area has seen two spearchuckers winging it off on foot with a pile of nigger clothes in their hands. Jesus Christ. Spearchuckers? Niggers? The guy's KKK material.
    • 9:45 A man across the circle from me shouted, "Hey spearchuckers! Hey spearchuckers! Why don't you turn bright red! Oh!, They're not spearchuckers, they're Indians.

  2. An agitator.

    • O’Dwyer is seen by the Kroger people as a spear-chucker for everything anti-Kroger.
    • Fred is pro surfing’s original spear-chucker.

The neighborhood

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