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I have seen a photo on the Internet of a customer filling a large empty jug from a soda fountain at a fast food restaurant. It had caption that someone is "gonna nig". What does "nig" mean? Among • It's not in Cambridge or OxfordDictionaries at all. • There's no verb meaning in the Wiktionary entry. • I couldn't view its definition in Merriam-Webster because of the paywall. • The only verb definition in Dictionary.com lists it as a synonym for "nidge", a term used in masonry that makes no sense in context. • "Nig" as a noun is a clipped racial slur (as seen at YourDictionary and at TheFreeDictionary, which mirrors a Wikipedia disambiguation page). Is this related to "renege"? Or if it's a verbing of the clipped racial slur, what meaning is implied? @Mitch: Admittedly, my downvote was partly because I find the usage being queried offensive. But it was mainly because the meaning is blindingly obvious looking at any of the first five results returned by googling " gonna nig", which to me means OP made no real effort to find an answer elsewhere. In fact, it now seems from OP's related meta post that he already knew the meaning, but apparently he wanted the meaning "documented" here on ELU. If I could, I'd vote to delete it. @Mitch: Clearly my position here is minority one. But I now see OP himself obviously knew the answer, since he's actually answered his own question. So I can't for the life of me see why you (and the 4 people who upvoted your first comment) think you can ju...

NIG

The procedure of the MTA execution has been changed: The approval of the person in charge of intellectual property is eliminated. The procedure of the MTA execution consists of the approval by user and National Institute of Genetics. Once you order, just wait for the arrival of flies or plasmids. Please see a flow chart below. The procedure of the MTA execution has been changed: The approval of the person in charge of intellectual property is eliminated. The procedure of the MTA execution consists of the approval by user and National Institute of Genetics. Once you order, just wait for the arrival of flies or plasmids. Please see a flow chart below. Notice: We have released 3,420 knockout strains (KO strains) using gRNA strains. In addition, 3,113 gRNA strains have been added. The KO strains can be searched by gene name or CG number on the NIG-FLY website. Please use it. September 22,2022. What's New ! Apr, 2023 • 2023 Mar, 2023 • Antibody 10 were released. Sep, 2022 • KO strains 3,420 were released. • gRNA strains 3,113 were added. Jun, 2022 • " Apr, 2022 • " • 2022 Jun, 2021 • " Apr, 2021 • " • 2021 May, 2020 • 2020 Sep, 2019 • " May, 2019 • We stopped the distribution of a part of NIG-RNAi stocks, 4,442 stocks. These flies are preserved in alcohol. NIG FLY Information • Segmentation Antibodies • Cas9 Reagents • How to Order Fly Stocks IMPORTANT: Please Read First !! • AboutMTA (Sample[PDF]) • • • • • • • • • Caution " Drosophila Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) Kyoto, Jap...