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The word nigger carries with it much of the hatred and repulsion directed toward Africans and African Americans. Historically, nigger defined, limited, and mocked African Americans.It was a term of exclusion, a verbal justification for discrimination. Whether used as a noun, verb, or adjective, it reinforced the stereotype of the lazy, stupid, dirty, worthless parasite. No other American ethnophaulism carried so much purposeful venom, as the following representative list suggests:

• Nigger, v. To wear out, spoil or destroy.
• Niggerish, adj. Acting in an indolent and irresponsible manner.
• Niggerlipping, v. Wetting the end of a cigarette while smoking it.
• Niggerlover, n. Derogatory term aimed at whites lacking in the necessary loathing of blacks.
• Nigger luck, n. Exceptionally good luck, emphasis on undeserved.
• Nigger-flicker, n. A small knife or razor with one side heavily taped to preserve the user’s fingers.
• Nigger heaven, n. a designated place, usually the balcony, where blacks were forced to sit, for example, in an integrated movie theater or church.
• Nigger knocker, n. axe handle or weapon made from an axe handle.
• Nigger rich, adj, Deeply in debt but ostentatious.
• Nigger shooter, n. A slingshot.
• Nigger steak, n. a slice of liver or a cheap piece of meat.
• Nigger stick, n. police officer’s baton.
• Nigger tip, n. leaving a small tip or no tip in a restaurant.
• Nigger in the woodpile, n. a concealed motive or unknown factor affecting a situation in an adverse way.
• Nigger work, n. Demeaning, menial tasks.

Nigger has been used to describe a dark shade of color (nigger-brown, nigger-black), the status of whites who interacted with blacks (nigger-breaker, -dealer, -driver, -killer, -stealer, -worshipper, and -looking), and anything belonging to or associated with African Americans (nigger-baby, -boy, -girl, -mouth, -feet, -preacher, -job, -love, -culture, -college, -music, and so forth).  Nigger is the ultimate American insult; it is used to offend other ethnic groups, as when Jews are called white-niggers; Arabs, sandniggers; or Japanese, yellow-niggers.

(via FSU)