African grape

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noun Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

a watermelon.

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Origin of African grape

An Americanism dating back to 1980–85

This term makes reference to the stereotype that Black people love to eat watermelon.

Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Ed Brooke, the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, embraced fights with the left and right.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America|John Avlon|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Still, for all of this, South Carolina is now represented in the U.S. Senate by Tim Scott, a Republican and an African-American.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Finally, we have a major film on civil rights in which African Americans are the heroes in their own story.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Among African Americans, the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Jeremiah Wright cannot do it.
No Gods, No Cops, No Masters|James Poulos|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The nine barricaded the outer gates and placed in the best positions guns loaded with grape.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will seek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
I looked up at sound of a startled exclamation, and beheld the round African physog of Lyn Rowan's colored mammy.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Mr. Ernescliffe manages him very well—used to illness on that African coast, and the doctor is very fond of him.
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various