mud shark

English

Alternative forms

• mudshark

Noun

mud shark (plural mud sharks)

1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A non-black person, usually a white woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men.
   • 2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba, page 26:

     The courtships were called off. The guys all joked about it afterward, said Mr. Bloussé was a nigger-lover and a mud shark.

2. Synonym of spiny dogfish

See also

• coal burner
• jungle fever
• once you go black, you never go back
• snicker licker

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “mud shark n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang