Meaning of hairyback | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gastrotrich.
2. A white Afrikaner.
   South-Africa, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur

Examples

“I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.”

“A mistake which is often made by our South African militants is to assume that we are cleverer than the police, that we can out-manoeuvre the 'hairybacks' and the 'rock spiders'[…]”

“[…]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.”

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