Meaning of rughead | Babel Free

Definitions

A black person.

US, ethnic, slang, slur

Examples

“Rizzo opens the door and he's surrounded — I mean a sea of these kids, I'm talking about tough-looking rugheads.”

“[…] I don't get why you want to run around with all these rugheads anyway." I automatically sneak a look around. One of these days he's going to say something like that and some big black dude is going to be right there.”

“Huffing and puffing on arrival, he immediately emphasized that he didn't want “no rugheads” taking care of him. By “rughead,” he meant black people inclusively—male and female. This constraint would create obvious problems.”

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