Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly Upper Midwest & Western U.S. See blind tiger.
Wiktionary
- n. US a blind tiger or speakeasy
- n. southern US A police officer who has been bribed to ignore illegal activities.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blind pig’.
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that's just beastly!
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Nightmare Alley
From the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
geek, mark, rubber, calliope, booze-fool, rummy, the horrors, the crawling snakes, equalizer, bubbies, grubstake, softshoe and 99 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Noah's Park
Hello, and Welcome™! Come and visit our most diverse land of our Animalesque™ adventures. Here at Noah's Park™ we have Virtually All You'd Ever Want To See™. An experience that is related to ani...
sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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Moonshine
screech, moonshine, hooch, rotgut, firewater, bootleg, red-eye, sauce, varnish, mountain dew, sly grog, poteen and 30 more...
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Fanciful Beasts
sun dog, hot dog, dust bunny, shutter dog, spelling bee, cash cow, jailbird, copycat, paper tiger, sewing bee, charley horse, high horse and 47 more...
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Prohibition Drinks: "The Pansies"
"The Pansies" were on Esquire's list of the worst drinks of Prohibition. Seen in this New York Times article, "Bar? What Bar?" by William Grimes, June 2, 2009.
List also includes other...alexander, sweetheart, fluffy ruffles, pom pom, cream fizz, jake, raines law sandwich, princess mary's p..., leap year cocktail, angel's wings coc..., thunderclap cocktail, sidecar and 44 more...
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yarb 'He started off across the lot toward a shack at the edge of the village. Zeena watched him go.
"I'll bet that joint is a blind pig," she said to Stan.'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham Jul 1, 2012
chained_bear "In mid-1902 about half of the city's Minneapolis's candy stores were fronts for whorehouses; opium dens and unlicensed saloons called blind pigs operated openly along the Mississippi River; and the local gambling kingpin drew a salary as a police detective."
—Charles Leerhsen, Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 237 Oct 27, 2008
reesetee A speakeasy. Jan 4, 2008