Phrase guide

Jim Crower

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A proponent of Jim Crow laws

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 2012, Robert Cottrell, Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball Landis, by contrast, was “not insulting Adolf Hitler, the master Jim Crower of all time
  • 1995, Christopher De Santis, Langston Hughes and the Chicago defender Nobody likes riots, but when an over-zealous white Jim Crower collides with a too- much Jim Crowed Negro, hysteric sparks might fly capable of lighting dangerous emotional fires.

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History

Etymology

From Jim Crow + -er.