Meaning of lightie | Babel Free

Definitions

A black person with relatively light-coloured skin.

informal

Examples

“I looked up into that giant's eyes and while I saw curiosity there, I didn't see the anger and hatred I had seen in so many eyes of the black people as they looked down on a lightie.”

“[…] hood-famous Black men and members of their entourages, surrounded by a uniform of attractive young white women and the occasional ambiguous 'lightie.'”

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