n-word pass
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of N-word pass.
Example Sentences
- "Like blacks, Latinos also invoke historical images and lineages when explaining why they get an n-word pass[.]"
- "Behn jokes about the kid being just another white boy looking for an "n-word pass", but then Adam accepts a challenge by a cocky rapper looking for an Old West-type draw (the punk even calls himself Billy Pistols)."
- ""Almost every day at my school the white guys in my class ask me for the n-word pass..." (Student at a private school in Atlanta, June 22, 2020"
- "I have had the N-word said to me three times and when I said, "Hey that's not OK," they replied that I have the "N-word pass," I am 1% African American, or they said that racism is over, and that is sadly not true. People today are still being treated differently because the color of their skin."
- "Your son might question this last idea if he is familiar with the concept of an "N-word pass," by which a black person grants a nonblack person permission to use the term."
- "The doctored photo shows Martin Luther King Jr. next to a student who is holding a sheet of paper that reads, "Official N-word pass.""
Etymology
From the fact that the word nigga is commonly used in African American Vernacular English, despite being popularly perceived as racist when used by a nonblack individual.