Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: "You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger” ( James Baldwin).
Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people: "Gun owners are the new niggers . . . of society” ( John Aquilino).