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jungle bunny

noun

, Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jungle bunny1

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70
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Example Sentences

I was called the worst kind of wildlife, “monkey,” “jungle bunny,” you name it.

The family avoided public places such as restaurants, and Blackman remembers being called a "jungle bunny" and told to go back to where she came from.

Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction.

But the taunting cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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