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nigger rig..origin please

I'm African-American and living in PA I have heard and in my younger days even used this word myself.In recent conversations with friends of all cultures some have heard of this phrase while others do...

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I'm not sure about nigger rig, but a lot of oldtimers (Boston at least) called the seats way up back at a hockey game "nigger heaven". I am not sure if this was a figurative reference to the "back of...

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There certainly was/is such a term and I posted the following in a thread over at the Straight Dope Message Board in an argument about "jury-rigged" :"nigger-rigged" was certainly found in print,...

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Lighter's citations of the term run from 1965 to 1994. So, it is still in use.

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I heard it growing up in Alabama in the 80's.

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I have *never* heard nigger-rigged, but I have heard jerry-rigged quite frequently; the meaning is the same, but the reference is to Germans, probably originated during one of the World Wars, not too...

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thank you for the responses.I appreciate the link samclem.Davewilton,when you mention to lighter's,what does that refer to?...P.S. Sidubu stands for the initials C.W...again thanks for all of the...

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But you see, there really isn't any term such as "jerry-rigged." It's "jury-rigged." Or "jerry-built." But not "jerry-rigged."Read the thread which I posted above from a discussion over at the...

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Lighter = The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, J.E. Lighter, editor.

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