Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(derogatory, offensive, vulgar, ethnic slur, colloquial, chiefly, US) African-American Vernacular English.
(slang, of persons) Typifying characteristic traits (e.g. physical, cultural, linguistic, etc.) of African-American blacks, especially in defiant contrast to those of whites or white-favouring blacks; quintessentially or characteristically black.
(slang, nonstandard) A black African.
(derogatory, vulgar, US, offensive, ethnic slur) African-American; black.
(US, broadly, proscribed, sometimes, offensive) Any black American person; by extension, any black person.