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Meaning of bongo party | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A large or raucous crowd or gathering of black people.

Internet, derogatory, offensive

Examples

“A weekend fraternity party at the University of California at Berkeley was shut down by campus police because of overcrowding, touching off a riot in which revelers among a group of 2,000 people looted stores, fired shots and robbed pedestrians along Telegraph Avenue early yesterday.”
“MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Rap mogul Suge (shug) Knight is hospitalized in good condition after being shot in the leg during a party in Miami Beach.”
“Had, say, an "uprising," as Maxine Waters calls it, happened in L.A. c.1935, the bongo party would have been brought to an abrupt and brutal end with the LAPD and National Guard simply spraying lead at every LOOTer in sight.”
“Went to a bongo party completely by mistake / there were coons and thugs and fat sheboons with all the pavement apes / When I got to the bongo party, it smelled of jenkem juice / someone left the cave door open, there were chimps on the loose.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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