nigger shooter

English

Noun

nigger shooter (plural nigger shooters)

1. (US, slang, ethnic slur) A catapult or slingshot.
   • 1943, The Code of the City of Houston, Texas, page 605:

     Any person who shall shoot an airgun, “nigger shooter,” catapult or such like device, […]

   • 2022, Terry Anne Scott, Lynching and Leisure, page 161:

     A slingshot was commonly referred to as a nigger-shooter, for instance, during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. “Gee mister, will you show us how to use a nigger-shooter,” implored one Texas youth of a local expert marksman.