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名詞

thicklips (plural thicklips)

1. (ethnic slur) A black person.
   • 1846, James Fenimore Cooper, The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin

     The red man was born here; the pale man was born across the salt lake; the black man came from a country of his own, where the sun is always above his head. What of that? We are brothers. The Thicklips (this was the name by which the strangers designated Jaaf, as we afterward learned) is the friend of Susquesus.

   • 1994, John Gillies, Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference (page 26)

     a 'thicklips' with woolly hair

   • 2012, Michael Rogers, Coconut Shells (page 3)

     […] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […]

   • 2015, Avis J. Smith, African American: The Opposition Court Case (page 3)

     Thicklips—this word is European in origin and gives reference to historical European classification of races in Africa.