"wigga" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wiggas [plural], wiggaz [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|wiggaz}} wigga (plural wiggas or wiggaz)
  1. Alternative spelling of wigger (racial senses) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: wigger (extra: racial senses) Related terms: nounnigga
    Sense id: en-wigga-en-noun-uNgfqvOx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "wiggas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiggaz",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "s",
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      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "extra": "racial senses",
          "word": "wigger"
        }
      ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Padgett Powell, Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "Forrest they say hard on the nigga, so he ain't gone cut no wigga no slack either, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Norman Kelley, A Phat Death: A Nina Halligan Mystery, →ISBN, page 26:",
          "text": "However, it hadn't sold well with the wiggas -- white suburban kids who dressed \"black\" and purchased most of the hardcore gangsta madness -- and that \"caused\" Sugar Dick to go G101, gangster mean.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Amy L. Best, Representing Youth, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "The use of the term \"American youth culture\" may invoke images of urban hipsters, suburban wiggas, cheerleaders, graffiti writers, skater kids, youth of the African Diaspora with oversized pants slung low on the hips, or lesbian zine writers, but rarely does such a term invoke images of girls donning burkas, even if they are also in sequined prom dresses.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of wigger (racial senses)"
      ],
      "id": "en-wigga-en-noun-uNgfqvOx",
      "links": [
        [
          "wigger",
          "wigger#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "nounnigga"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wigga"
}
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wiggas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiggaz",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
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      },
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    }
  ],
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    }
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        }
      ],
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Padgett Powell, Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "Forrest they say hard on the nigga, so he ain't gone cut no wigga no slack either, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Norman Kelley, A Phat Death: A Nina Halligan Mystery, →ISBN, page 26:",
          "text": "However, it hadn't sold well with the wiggas -- white suburban kids who dressed \"black\" and purchased most of the hardcore gangsta madness -- and that \"caused\" Sugar Dick to go G101, gangster mean.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Amy L. Best, Representing Youth, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "The use of the term \"American youth culture\" may invoke images of urban hipsters, suburban wiggas, cheerleaders, graffiti writers, skater kids, youth of the African Diaspora with oversized pants slung low on the hips, or lesbian zine writers, but rarely does such a term invoke images of girls donning burkas, even if they are also in sequined prom dresses.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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  ],
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}

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