ninja

Meaning

Noun

1. A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.
2. (figuratively) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
3. (figuratively, in-plural, slang) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.
4. (figuratively) A person considered to look like the historical ninja in some way, including (historical slang) an amateur private miner in Mongolia.
5. (euphemistic) Synonym of nigga as a friendly term of address.
6. (euphemistic) Synonym of nigga as a friendly term of address.
7. (derogatory, ethnic, euphemistic, offensive, slur, vulgar) nigger.

Adj

Of or related to ninjas in their various senses.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.
2. (Internet) Synonym of preempt: to supersede and invalidate a response to a thread or message by posting immediately before it, typically shortly before the other party finishes writing or posting their reply.
3. (Internet, slang) To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.

Synonyms

espionage

spying

spial

Translations

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νίντζα

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نينجا

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Spionage

espionnage

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espion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɪnd͡ʒə/

Etymology

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.