Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US) a white person who adopts a black, spec. hip-hop/rap, lifestyle and is not merely a consumer of the records, but attempts to emulate what is otherwise an autonomous black culture.

1996		J. Baker Death Minus Zero (1998) 22: A couple of wiggers were trying to break into a Vauxhall Astra.
1999		Indep. Rev. 30 Sept. 1: The young white men [...] who want to embrace the hip hop nation: wiggaz.
1999		Observer 25 July 29: A timely reminder to all other ‘white niggaz’ that maybe they know less about being black than they like to think.
2000		Guardian G2 12 Jan. 3: It is argued that Ali G is not poking fun at black people at all but ‘wiggers’ – whites who want to be, or even think they are, black.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 whigger v. An adolescent male of Anglo descent who acts out with African American stereotypes.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 45/2: colourblind adj. describes a M?ori skinhead or a ‘whigger’; an inmate closely affiliated with an ethnic group that is not his own.
2003		Urban Dict. 🌐 phat-ass pants – Puffy pants worn by wiggas.
2008		Simon & Burns ‘Get Some’ Generation Kill ep. 1 [TV script] Spic’s a coon and a fuckin’ wigga.
20012		Slaughterhouse Our House‘’ 🎵 They call me a wigger like Renee Zell’.

2. (US campus) an African American who identifies with whites.

1993

Eble Campus Sl. Oct.