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nigga

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈnɪɡə//

A close and loyal friend.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA close and loyal friend.

    I'd never betray you, 'cause you my nigga, man.

  2. 2

    slangA black person (usually a male friend), especially an African American.

    As soon as I walked into the class and saw that sea of white faces, I felt alone, so I sat next to the only other nigga there.

    "I mean, if you're not interested, it ain't nothing but a thang, baby girl. Just let a nigga know."

  3. 3

    slangAny person, though chiefly male.

    White niggas do be like, this is too spicy.

    All these freshman niggas are so annoying.

    These niggas out here bein' fake.

  4. 4

    slangA male, especially an adult one, as opposed to a female.

    Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.

    I read somewhere I'm homophobic. Shit, go through the hood. There's mad niggas on my dick.

    Now if you go to a party, and it's straight niggas, then I say a good 7 times out of 10, it's bouta get LIT UP! Like bro, dudes don't go to parties for other dudes. Nobody wants to pull up to a sausage fest. Like nothing is worse than pulling up to a party that was promoted to have hella joints there, for there to be no females there!

  5. 5

    Variant of niggerdatedPronunciation spelling of nigger.

Etymology

From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of nigger.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of acrographic lexical list included in Old Babylonian scribal curriculum.

Etymology

Of Old Akkadian origin. Unrelated to Etymology 1.

Forms

plural
niggas, niggaz
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).