jungle bunny
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noun Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
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Origin of jungle bunny
An Americanism dating back to 1965–70
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How to use jungle bunny in a sentence
So all three of those might have been in the general Jungle-Bunny/Sambo family.