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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jigaboo /ˈdʒɪgəbuː/

▶noun N. Amer. informal, offensive a black person.

– origin early 20th cent.: rel. to sl. jig (in the same sense); cf. the pair bug, bugaboo.

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