Phrase guide
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adj
Discriminatory against African Americans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Segregated between African Americans and Caucasians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
A black man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, obsolete, offensive, slur
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name
The collective policies and customs of an era of racial oppression, especially legalized racial persecution and segregationist practices, prevalent from the late 1800s through the 1960s until challenged by the U.S. civil rights movement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
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name
A fictional character from various minstrel show performances who is stereotypically depicted as an unintelligent, violent, and promiscuous black man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A World War II code name for patrols along the British coastline to intercept enemy aircraft, originally intended to warn of an invasion in 1940.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A double-action planing tool invented by Joseph Whitworth, in which the blade ‘jumps’ to face the other way on the back-stroke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A tool for bending railway rails, by holding the rail with two arms and pushing a screw into the other side.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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verb
To work toward legislation that incorporates a discriminatory caste system or racial segregation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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noun
a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar
noun
barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: color bar, colour bar, color line, colour line
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Broader terms: ideological barrier
History
From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.
