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sponge
noun- a group, notional or real, opposed to the gains of the civil rights movement US, 1965
The vocalised abbreviation stood for “Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything”. The group was more notional than real, but, for example, in 1965 the Student Council of the University of Virginia was petitioned by an organisation calling itself SPONGE for status as an independent organisation eligible to receive Student Council funds. - On First Avenue there is a meeting going on of a group called SPONGE (Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything). — Sol Yurrick, The Bag, p. 444, 1968
- A growing Black Nationalist movement often faced off against groups like SPONGE, the acronym for the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything. — Gregory S. Bell, In the Black, p. 69, 2002
- a boogie boarder, who rides waves on a small foam board US
Used in a disparaging manner by surfers. - — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 120, 1991
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