Usually means: Offensive term for black Africans.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word kaffirs:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kaffirs: Merriam-Webster
  2. Kaffirs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. kaffirs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Kaffir's, Kaffirs, kaffirs: Wordnik
  5. Kaffirs, kaffirs: Wiktionary
  6. Kaffirs: Dictionary.com
  7. Kaffirs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Kaffirs: bizterms.net
  4. Kaffirs: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. kaffirs: Finance-Glossary.com
  6. Kaffirs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kaffirs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kaffirs: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Kaffir)

noun:  (countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.
noun:  (countable, offensive) A member of the Nguni people of southern Africa, especially a Xhosa.
noun:  (countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.
noun:  (uncountable, now historical, offensive) A language spoken by the Nguni peoples of southern Africa, especially Xhosa.
noun:  (finance, slang, historical) South African mining shares
noun:  (uncountable) Ellipsis of kaffir corn. [The cultivated species of sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, used as a food for people and animals and in ethanol production.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of kaffir [(countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.]
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