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Sambo


Definition:

  • (n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Heads of WHO country offices in Africa are “politically motivated appointments” made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency’s chief in Geneva, Dr Margaret Chan, it said.
  • (2) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
  • (3) According to Lewin, Burnside had also hoped to win a lucrative contract to promote sambo in the UK.
  • (4) New Century Media envisaged Putin handing the cup to the winning sambo team as well as a "prestigious black tie evening reception" afterwards.
  • (5) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
  • (6) This was acknowledged in a March speech by the national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in which he outlined the federal government's new "soft approach" to counter-terrorism .
  • (7) Depictions of black people, like Sambo, the piccaninny and many others , were manufactured and sold to the public – often to sell consumer products – as foils for whiteness.
  • (8) The national security adviser Lt Colonel Sambo Dasuki appointed Dr Fatima Akilu, a psychologist, to work as the director of behavioural analysis and strategic communication in his office.
  • (9) The Sambo market was once the place where shopkeepers from across the capital came to stock up their stores.
  • (10) Authorities in the northern state of Kaduna imposed a 24-hour curfew after protesters set fire to the residence of vice-president Namadi Sambo in the town of Zaria and forced their way into the central prison, releasing inmates.
  • (11) A photo on the sambo federation's website shows Cameron chatting to Putin's close friend , with Alex Nekrassov – who works for Burnside's PR consultancy firm New Century Media – translating.
  • (12) In Kaduna, home to the vice president Namadi Sambo, young men burned tyres in the streets and threw stones at police and soldiers trying to restore order, according to witnesses.
  • (13) Sambo Dasuki rejected suggestions that the Nigerian garrison in the town of Baga, overrun by the Islamist group at the beginning of the month, had been under-equipped, citing the substantial arsenal seized by the attackers that was displayed by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video claiming responsibility posted online on Tuesday .
  • (14) In June Shestakov hosted a sambo event at Kensington Palace, where he read out a message from Russia's president.
  • (15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : University of Leeds Runner-up : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Wolverhampton International projects ( Sponsored by IELTS ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jude Collins, IELTS communication advisor, presents the international projects award to Dr Katie Hampson, Maganga Sambo and Joel Changalucha from the University of Glasgow for the Boyd Orr Centre.
  • (16) Two mature elite Sambo wrestlers were studied during a 22-day pre-European Championship period, during which they were to lose weight and maintain their top physical performance characteristics.
  • (17) He is head of FIAS, the international federation for sambo, a Russian variation of judo.
  • (18) Boko Haram - the Guardian briefing Read more He severely criticised comments made by Nigeria’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, at the same venue in January, in which he blamed the army’s defeats at the hands of Boko Haram on cowardice in the ranks .
  • (19) The scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr even calls what he terms “the everyday racism of American popular culture “Sambo Art” .
  • (20) I’m going to buy larvae-eating fish for the tanks today, and I’ll go to the clinic, and talk to my neighbours.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sambo fish are being distributed for mosquito control as they are believed to eat mosquito larvae.

Samboo


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Sambur.

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