ninja

ˈnɪnd͡ʒə

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#1·1d ago

(figurative) A person considered to look like the historical ninja in some way, including (historical, _, slang) an amateur private miner in Mongolia.

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#2·1d ago

(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

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#3·1d ago

(martial arts) A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.

He used to work in the Japanese agency as a ninja.

Origin: A romanized borrowing of , popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person. The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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