"Shaniqua" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008 May 1, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting Bill Cosby, “‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a damned thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.",
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        "A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage."
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      "form": "Shaniquas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Isis I., Shaded Canvas, AuthorHouse, page 72",
          "text": "Maybe he should have started a while ago and upstaged actors for their menacing portrayal of the Shaniquas and the Sha-nay-nays on television.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista, UPNE, page 24",
          "text": "So vexed was Cosby at this kind of black significance that he went out and spoke against it in town-hall meetings across the country, meetings in which the Shaniquas and Shaliguas actually showed up to hear what he had to say.",
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        "An African-American woman."
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          "African-American",
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          "woman",
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        "(slang, often derogatory) An African-American woman."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Ebony"
        },
        {
          "word": "Tyrone"
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  "word": "Shaniqua"
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          "ref": "2008 May 1, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting Bill Cosby, “‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a damned thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.",
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "Shaniquas",
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  "related": [
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          "ref": "2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista, UPNE, page 24",
          "text": "So vexed was Cosby at this kind of black significance that he went out and spoke against it in town-hall meetings across the country, meetings in which the Shaniquas and Shaliguas actually showed up to hear what he had to say.",
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