brown sugar n.2
1. (orig. US black) an attractive black individual, usu. a woman.
![]() | Wise-crack Dict. 6/1: Brown sugar – sweet but unrefined. | |
![]() | Coll. Stories (1990) 30: Think of me, your little brown sugar, darling. | ‘A Nigger’ in|
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | Pinktoes (1989) 102: Brown Sugar [...] was a big, handsome, [...] smooth, brown, luscious piece. | |
![]() | 🎵 Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good? | ‘Brown Sugar’|
![]() | Lang. of Ethnic Conflict 46: Color Allusions, Other than ‘Black’ and ‘Negro’: brown-sugar [fem. Also sugar-brown]. | |
![]() | personal ad. Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 45: Look for brown sugar to play S/M games with, nothing too severe. | |
![]() | Six Out Seven (1994) 93: Times I hear some of the truckers talkin bout that. Black ones be called brown sugar. |
2. (drugs) heroin.
![]() | N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Jan. 16: The Asian heroin is coarser—hence its nickname ‘brown sugar’. | |
![]() | Bk of Jargon 325: Also H, big H, blanks, boy, brother, brown, brown sugar, caballo. | |
![]() | ONDCP Street Terms 4: Brown sugar — Heroin. | |
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 31/2: brown sugar n. heroin. | |
![]() | DNA India (Mumbai) 10 June 3/2: Drugs like opium, brown sugar [...] and a few synthetic drugs are smuggled by train . |
3. lowgrade or adulterated heroin.
![]() | Recreational Drugs. | et al.
4. sexual intercourse with a black person.
![]() | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 150: Women, too, relate sex to the sweet-tasting with terms like to [...] get some brown sugar, for sexual intercourse. | |
![]() | (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 4: Had me a little brown sugar action this morning. | |
![]() | Portable Promised Land (ms.) 160: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Jungle fever. Brown sugar. |
In phrases
1. (US black) to have heterosexual intercourse.
![]() | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 198: There were also terms related to men and sex: [...] get some sweet, get some brown sugar (have sexual intercourse, kiss). |
2. of a male, whether hetero- or homosexual, to have anal intercourse.
![]() | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 240: get some brown sugar/sweet Engage in sexual intercourse with a male. |