nigger chaser

noun

nigger chaser

noun

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US, Ethnic, Slang, Slur A kind of bottle rocket firework without the stick.

There's sure to be fireworks there. […] Rockets and Roman candles and torpedoes and whirligigs and nigger chasers and pinwheels.1924 July, Boys' Life, page 5:
Each had been given two dollars. Enough money to fill a good sized paper sack with a mix of sparklers, crackers, “dago bombs,” and “nigger chasers.”2007, George C. Zidbeck, Kid Scorpion: The War Years, page 49:

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A “nigger chaser,” another name for a Texas Twister firework, would travel in all kinds of directions on the ground making a whistling noise and then finally popping with a loud bang.2019, Dr. Rickey L. Harman, Happy Days in Happy, Texas:

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