minstrel show

1. A vaudeville show, often with white actors in blackface, portraying negative stereotypes of black people, showing them as lazy, stupid, oafish, etc.

2. A comedy starring Anthony Anderson.

1. The minstrel show had several actors in blackface shuffling about and singing old slave songs.

2. I can't believe I saw "My Baby's Daddy, what a minstrel show!"

by John Big August 12, 2005

minstrel show

A form of American entertainment performed by whites in blackface before the Civil War and by blacks after the Civil War. Minstrel shows usually involved dancing and singing. The shows portrayed blacks as ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, joyful, and musical. For several decades, it provided the lens for how white America saw blacks. Today, rap music and hip-hop culture is nothing more than a latter-day minstrel show, in which rappers try to put themselves and the rest of black America down by encouraging violence, being promiscuous, dropping out of school, and excessivly wasting money on trivial things such as "bling bling" and gold plated toilet seats. All the while, giving white America a view of blacks.

Minstrel shows are alive and well today. It used to be "Jump Jim Crow" 100 years ago, but today it's "Skeet Skeet Nigga"

by shaunnol December 13, 2008

Minstrel Cycle

The period in which an artsy individual attempts to make money off of his/her music.

John: Where is Kate?

Adam: Shes over on the corner trying to earn money off of

her guitar.

John: Really? She isn't very good.

Adam: Cut her some slack, shes going through her minstrel cycle.

by Pr3ngles August 5, 2011

Minstrel cycle

A good way to get around town

Minstrel cycle it's that time of the month

by Simpvilage17 May 19, 2020

Minstrel Cycle

The cycle, usually around 28 days long, when the female of our great species suddenly needs to eat a bag of Mars Minstrels (or similar chocolates). This is around the time of their period

Oh my god, my wife is having her Minstrel Cycle.

by Little Computer Nerd October 8, 2010

minstrel cramps

Da assorted painful muscle-spasms dat you suffer from excessive musical-instrument playing, or from lugging around a lute or lyre dat's too heavy/bulky.

While Jaime Sommers was under hospital-room arrest, Steve Austin sneaked up to her window and eye-twinklingly said dat he had "come to serenade her". Da unjustly-detained-and-therefore-very-downcast Jaime then asked Steve if he knew da song called "Melancholy Baby", but of course, he had actually gone there just to bionically bust her out of her room so dat she could travel wif him to investigate her supposed crimes for themselves and try to figure out what had happened in reality and who had truly been responsible, and so there was no risk of Steve's actually developing any minstrel cramps, since he never ended up strumming a note on any stringed instruments.

by QuacksO June 18, 2023

pink minstrel

A straight man, masquerading as a gay man, akin to the black and white minstrels who were white performers that put on makeup to imitate black performers.

Sean Lock turned to David Walliams with fire in his eyes and announced “don’t ever touch me again you pink minstrel.”

by Dismal Scientist September 23, 2023