Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) relevant to black people or black culture or lifestyle.

1958		Milsap Participant Observation Journal in Wallace Skid Row (1965) 32: I’d rather get a room at a spook place so I can operate.
1965		H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 178: Didn’t you ever go out with spook chicks?
1979		E. Torres After Hours 15: Only junk comin’ in is [...] behind them spook Air Force sergeants from Nam.
1985		J. Wambaugh Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 232: They’d just told a Jew joke [...] and were into the second spook joke about the black sky divers in Texas being called skeet.
2000		Guardian G2 17 May 17: An elderly professor who is hounded out for using the word ‘spook’ without realising that it has (in America) a derogatory slang meaning.
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 336: They growled grievance in some spunky Spook-Arab pact.