wigga n.
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.
Death Minus Zero (1998) 22: A couple of wiggers were trying to break into a Vauxhall Astra. | ||
Indep. Rev. 30 Sept. 1: The young white men [...] who want to embrace the hip hop nation: wiggaz. | ||
NZEJ 13 37: whigger n. A white person trying to be a Maori. | ‘Boob Jargon’ in||
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. | ||
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. | ||
OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 whigger v. An adolescent male of Anglo descent who acts out with African American stereotypes. | ||
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. | ||
Urban Dict. 🌐 phat-ass pants – Puffy pants worn by wiggas. | ||
Generation Kill ep. 1 [TV script] Spic’s a coon and a fuckin’ wigga. | ‘Get Some’||
🎵 They call me a wigger like Renee Zell’. | Our House‘’
2. (US campus) an African American who identifies with whites.
Campus Sl. Oct. |
In compounds
the quasi-black patois adopted by such young men.
Observer 22 Feb. 7: Wigger-speak. |