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Jim Crow

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Noun

1. color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line, jim crow

barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites

2. jim crow

a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jim Crow

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noun (often capitals) US
1. 
a. 
the policy or practice of segregating Black people
b. 
(as modifier)
jim-crow laws
2. 
a. 
an offensive term for a Black person
b. 
(as modifier)
a jim-crow saloon
3. 
an implement for bending iron bars or rails
4. 
a crowbar fitted with a claw
modifier US
1. 
relating to the policy or practice of segregating Black people
jim-crow laws
2. pejorative, offensive
a derogatory term relating to a Black person
a jim-crow saloon

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Jim Crow

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[alsoj- c-]; Informal
traditional discrimination against or segregation of blacks, esp. in the U.S.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jim Crow

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n.
The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregating black people, especially as practiced in the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-1900s.
adj.
1. Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of black people: Jim Crow laws; a Jim Crow town.
2. Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against: "I told them I wouldn't take a Jim Crow job" (Ralph Bunche).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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