porch monkey
English
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Noun
editporch monkey (plural porch monkeys)
- (idiomatic, offensive, ethnic slur) A lazy black person.
- 1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6:
- "[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."
References
edit- Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang