nig-Latin

nig-Latin
 n.— «Mistah FAB, a rapper from the Bay area, calls the way he and his friends speak “nig-latin” (from pig-latin, a phrase which raised ire in both the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and the Ku Klux Klan).» —“Mind your slanguage” by Miranda Sawyer Guardian (U.K.) Aug. 14, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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