driving while black
nounEtymology A jocular play on driving while intoxicated.
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US, Sarcastic A fictitious criminal offense, said to be committed when a traffic stop is motivated by a police officer's racial bias against a black motorist, rather than any actual violation of law.
- I was pulled over for driving while black yesterday. That idiot cop spent 20 minutes asking me a bunch of crap.
- jill We [Jill and her husband James] call it, "Driving While Black." We have a . . . nice car. So we got pulled over for a DWB. . . .[1995, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri A. Karis, Richard D. Powell, Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices (Understanding Families), SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 147:
- Related terms
- racial profiling, lookism, facial discrimination