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  • noun Plural form of negro.

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Examples

  • As for "negros" - to this day, the NYCB is overwhelmingly white.

    Balanchine's Hit Parade 2008

  • His negros were a dull, feeble, half-starved, and overlaboured herd.

    Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

  • The lady who owned the negros was a widow, who was born and raised in Massachusetts.

    Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887

  • The lady who owned the negros was a widow, who was born and raised in Massachusetts.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • My grandfather isn't at all racist and in fact lived in Africa for years assisting in underdeveloped areas but still uses the word "negros" for black people and says "cotton pickin '" when he's frustrated with something.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Are you idiot? in street picture in every day i see only few black (african) ppls, most of them are like me (normaly white / brown) and then some latsins (mulats) and asians (japan), i have traveled in Rio, Sao Paulo, Bahia, and i dont see that brazil is full of black ppls and i dont see any problems with racist i am white and i get along really good with "negros" and "latins" and i really dont see a racist problem in Brazil.

    Home 2009

  • Are you idiot? in street picture in every day i see only few black (african) ppls, most of them are like me (normaly white / brown) and then some latsins (mulats) and asians (japan), i have traveled in Rio, Sao Paulo, Bahia, and i dont see that brazil is full of black ppls and i dont see any problems with racist i am white and i get along really good with "negros" and "latins" and i really dont see a racist problem in Brazil.

    Home 2009

  • Are you idiot? in street picture in every day i see only few black (african) ppls, most of them are like me (normaly white / brown) and then some latsins (mulats) and asians (japan), i have traveled in Rio, Sao Paulo, Bahia, and i dont see that brazil is full of black ppls and i dont see any problems with racist i am white and i get along really good with "negros" and "latins" and i really dont see a racist problem in Brazil.

    Home 2009

  • Are you idiot? in street picture in every day i see only few black (african) ppls, most of them are like me (normaly white / brown) and then some latsins (mulats) and asians (japan), i have traveled in Rio, Sao Paulo, Bahia, and i dont see that brazil is full of black ppls and i dont see any problems with racist i am white and i get along really good with "negros" and "latins" and i really dont see a racist problem in Brazil.

    Home 2009

  • "Which argument of batman's do you think is better: the one where he lumps" negros ", prostitutes and junkies together as" losers ", or the one where he states that pacifists are some of the most violent people around?

    The Daily Press 2009

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