"moon cricket" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: moon crickets [plural]
Etymology: From moon + cricket. Perhaps a reference to slaves singing songs during the night. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|moon|cricket}} moon + cricket Head templates: {{en-noun}} moon cricket (plural moon crickets)
  1. (US, slang, ethnic slur) A black person. Tags: US, ethnic, slang, slur

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Quoted in 2020, Leslie Picca, Joe Feagin, Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage\nWhen we were leaving it was getting dark and my husband says to me “look at all of those moon crickets.” I confusingly asked him what he had meant by that. When we got into the car, he explained to me that all of the black people walking around under the moonlight look like a bunch of crickets scurrying around."
        },
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          "text": "Rooney Baxter, The Bluegrass Kid (page 182), 2015.\nThey don't have a good enough reason to come at us now. And besides, moon crickets do drive-bys. This feels like a message from someone else."
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