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  • noun Plural form of blackie.

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Examples

  • In his answer, Wallenberg, from Sweden's best-known and most powerful industry dynasty, used the term "blackies" -- svartingarna in swedish -- to describe South African blacks.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Swedish liberals urged people on Wednesday to boycott a high street bank linked to business tycoon Peter Wallenberg after he used the term "blackies" to describe South African blacks.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Swedish business tycoon Peter Wallenberg apologised on Thursday for using the term "blackies" to describe South African blacks during

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • "Peter Wallenberg's statement on 'blackies' stinks of racism," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • He was now getting into the inhabited part of the town, and tried to elude the pursuers by turning abrupt corners, but there was little chance of success in these tactics, for the "blackies" knew more about the place than he was ever likely to, and kept cutting him off in an alarming manner.

    Under the Rebel's Reign Charles Neufeld 1901

  • The people have got so used to their "blackies," as they call them, that no lesser or greater fête day can pass without the gipsy band having ample work to do in the form of playing for the people.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Various 1885

  • To even use the term "blackies" in regards to people of African descent shows how far down the ladder of human decency we have fallen.

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • Ok I don't blame the jogger for feeling alarmed albeit her 'blackies' comment harks back to the 1950s as Mark Thorogood said ..

    timesofmalta.com 2009

  • I think the rhodies, back then, cried "sell out", when the venerated I Smith agreed to go in for free and fair elections against the "blackies".

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

  • "blackies" aforesaid, designing them and their clever punning titles with the greatest freedom, unhampered by editorial interference.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

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