Definition of wigger
plural -s
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Definition of wigger
plural wiggers
slang, often offensive
:a usually young white person whose clothing, language, and mannerisms are regarded as imitative of those stereotypically associated with African-Americans :a white person who admires and seeks to emulate black culture
- Wimsatt was deeply committed to hip-hop's transformative powers, going so far as to embrace the status of the lowly “wigger,” a pejorative term popularized in the early 1990s to describe white kids who steep themselves in black culture.
- —Hua Hsu, The Atlantic, 1 Jan 2009
- There's a term of art—“wigger”—that is used both proudly and derisively to describe white enthusiasts of black hip-hop culture …
- —Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2010
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