Niggerball

Origin

nigger + ball

Full definition of niggerball

Noun

1. (South Africa, dated, countable) A large black sweet which changes colour (turns white) when sucked.
2. (uncountable, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) The sport of basketball.
• 2002, "Lieberal Death", Your TV viewing for This Evening (on newsgroup rec.sport.pro-wrestling)It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves.
• 2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder... two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player ...

Usage notes

Because of the term's offensive connotations, the sweets were renamed in the 1980s to blackballs.