niggergram

English

Etymology

From nigger +‎ -gram.

Noun

niggergram (plural niggergrams)

1. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) The informal circulation of gossip by black people.
   • 1974, Fiction, volumes 3-5, page 7:

     Porke is unaware of the fact that one of his most trusted slaves, through niggergrams, is keeping the four informed of Porke 's every move.

   • 2006, Pamela Mordecai, Pink Icing and Other Stories, page 32:

     Truth to tell, the niggergram can always count on Pansy and the boys.

   • 2007, Raoul Pantin, Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago:

     From the gunmen all over that television station that Friday night, there was almost a running commentary, a grapevine, a constant up to date “niggergram,” to use the Trinidad word, on events at the Red House downtown […]