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porch monkey (plural porch monkeys)

  1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A lazy black person.
    • 1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6:"[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."
    • 2006, Lee Kohn, Shadows of Rage, →ISBN, page 29:“Look Jake, you need a real partner, you know what I mean, a real white partner, not that overweight porch monkey. . . ; we whites have to stick together.”

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  • Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
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