Biafran

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, from or relating to Biafra.
• Extremely skinny.

Noun

• A native or inhabitant of Biafra.

Origin

• From Biafra + -an. The "skinny" sense is in reference to the images of extremely skinny Biafran refugees from the Nigerian Civil War that appeared plentifully in English-language media in the 1960s and 1970s.