ethnic slur

1. 1.

   a slur on someone's race or language

   Broaderaspersion

Questions about ethnic slur

What does ethnic slur mean?

ethnic slur means "a slur on someone's race or language".

Is ethnic slur a common word?

ethnic slur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.