Meaning of JIM CROW
| Pronunciation: | | 'jim 'krow
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- [n] a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails
- [n] barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
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| | Synonyms: | | color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line |
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| | See Also: | | crowbar, ideological barrier, pry, pry bar, wrecking bar | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Jim"-crow`\, n. (Mach.)
1. A machine for bending or straightening rails.
2. A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both
ways.
\Jim Crow\
A negro; -- said to be so called from a popular negro song
and dance, the refrain of which is ``Wheel about and turn
about and jump Jim Crow,'' produced in 1835 by T. D. Rice, a
famous negro minstrel. [Slang, U. S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | alien, anti-Semitism, apartheid, apartness, black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, detachment, discrimination, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fascism, foreigner, insularity, insulation, isolation, isolationism, Jim Crow law, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, minority prejudice, narrowness, outcast, out-group, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy, privatism, privatization, quarantine, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation, racialism, racism, recess, reclusion, red-baiting, retirement, retreat, rustication, seclusion, secrecy, segregation, separation, sequestration, sex discrimination, sexism, snobbishness, social barrier, social discrimination, splendid isolation, stranger, superpatriotism, tightness, ultranationalism, white power, white supremacy, withdrawal, xenophobia |
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