sambo
三宝,森博,桑博,桑波
Definitions
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plural sam·bos.Older Use: Now Disparaging and Offensive.
- : a term used to refer to a Black person, especially a male.
- : Also zam·bo [zam-boh] /ˈzæm boʊ/ .Archaic. a term used to refer to a Latin American of Black and Native American ancestry, or a person of Black and white ancestry.
Examples
My understanding is that this artwork came first and was soon replaced with the “Sambo as a baby genie” motif.
In 1950, Peter Pan Records released an audio version of the story with the racially neutral title Little Brave Sambo.
So all three of those might have been in the general Jungle-Bunny/Sambo family.
Some will remember that there used to be a restaurant chain in this country called Sambo's.
Of course the cook sought to counteract such tendencies, but he had to be very circumspect, for Sambo resented insults fiercely.
Sambo, our guard, for some reasons best known to himself, made no objections to the proceeding.
They are put on a tray of pure white wood with legs called Sambo—a dumb waiter, if you like.
Sambo could speak a little English, having wrought for several years on the coffee plantation of a Yankee settler.
“Hi–i; you is fuss rate,” said Sambo, as he and his comrades returned and busied themselves in cutting up the dead alligators.