Definition of "figger" []

• Eye dialect spelling of figure. (noun)
• Eye dialect spelling of figure. (verb)

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• "At a loss to explain why anyone would pay that much to take her picture, Twiggy said objectively: "Hit's not really wot you call a figger, is it?""
• "'Ought is an' ought, an 'a figger is a figger, all for de white man an' nothin 'fer de nigger'."
• "The cops looked on; no runner lasted long who didn't, out of his pocket, put in a free "figger" for his working area's foot cops, and it was generally known that the numbers bankers paid off at higher levels of the police department."