floppy, noun

Origin:
Probably military slang used in the former Rhodesia.
derogatory, offensive, slang
Note:
‘Unless one was with Ian Smith’s conscripts during that last “Rhodesian War”..one will have to read this book with a finger stuck..in the glossary at the end...“Floppies were people who flopped down dead when you switched your gat (sc. gun) to sing”. (Weekly Mail & Guardian, Feb. 1994, quoting Angus Shaw’s Another Time, Another Place).
An insulting term for a Black person.
1978 E. Dibb in Fair Lady 25 Oct. 108‘Victor nine, Tango three. How did it go?’ ‘Positive. Small contact single floppy.’
1986 V. Cooke et al. in S. Gray Market Plays 34Black people can do what they like. Murder old men and children, rape women, get drunk, smoke dagga, and they don’t go to jail because they floppies.
1988 S. Sole in Style Apr. 48He tried to sell the gun to one of the floppies (blacks) at the hotel.
1991 G. Murray Informant, Alberton, GautengThe floppies at the bus stop got a big fright when the car backfired — the trouble in the township has made them nervous.
An insulting term for a Black person.
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