ninja

adj

1. Initialism of no income, no job or assets, describing credit characteristics of a borrower, usually of a residential mortgage.

noun

Etymology: A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person. The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

1. A person trained in ninjutsu, especially (historical) one used for espionage, assassination, and other tasks requiring stealth during Japan's shogunate period.

   “He used to work in the Japanese agency as a ninja.”

   “The men... are now learning to be ninja or ‘stealers-in’.”

2. A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

   “For months the Japanese spoke of national-security adviser Henry Kissinger as a ninja—the magician of Japanese legends who performs supernatural acts and practices sorcery.”

   “Other bankers are dubbing themselves ninja, modern-day descendants of the superspies of 17th century samurai houses.”

3. A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

   “I had TOTK running on my pc 2 weeks before it released on the switch and I'm still here. They can send the ninjas, I'm waiting.”

   “Nintendo ninjas were inside the discord, watching. Now all the Yuzu devs have turned over all electronic devices, websites, logs...”

4. A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

   “A ninja developer can take advantage of this when building large software systems, adding a bit of C# and a dabble of Python.”

   “If you're a Linux ninja, this book still gives you a solid reference on the Raspberry Pi and the version of Linux it uses, but no prior Linux knowledge is required.”

5. A person considered to look like the historical ninja in some way, including (historical slang) an amateur private miner in Mongolia.

   “He immediately suspected they were ninjas because, he said, they were dressed in black and wore masks, trademarks of the mysterious assassins who have been sowing terror across East Java in recent months.”

   “Yen buyers were more subdued... fearing the Bank of Japan's new strategy of covert intervention to buy U.S. dollars through agent banks—described by some as the central bank's ninjas or secret agents.”

6. Synonym of nigga as a friendly term of address.

   “What's up, ninjas?”

   “I'm thicker than a Snicker, I'm thicker than your ninja!”

7. Synonym of nigga as a friendly term of address.

   “What up, my ninja!”

8. nigger.

verb

Etymology: A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person. The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

1. To act or move like a ninja, particularly with regard to a combination of speed, power, and stealth.

   “I leapt up, ninja'd over to Gav's bed and wheeched the duvet off.”

   “In our dark house we were ninja-ing around with water guns.”

2. to beat someone to a post; to make the same reply just before the other party finishes typing, making their response redundant.

   “When I hit post, I saw that Blue Emu had ninja'd me, so I just deleted my reply.”

3. To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.

   “That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!”