Porch Monkey Meaning

(idiomatic, offensive, ethnic slur) A lazy black person.

Example: 1983 Jan. 14, "Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 6:
  "[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."
2006, Lee Kohn, Shadows of Rage, ISBN 9780595423392, p. 29 (Google preview):
  â€œLook Jake, you need a real partner, you know what I mean, a real white partner, not that overweight porch monkey. . . ; we whites have to stick together.”

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