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Definition of blind tiger in English: blind tiger(also blind pig) noun North American informal An illegal bar. Example sentencesExamples - In 1864, the owner of a blind pig in Manchester, New Hampshire brought a suit to recover money damages for the destruction of his bar.
- While there is no question that corrupt policemen protected tenderloin brothels, ‘blind pigs,’ and gambling dens, the police took their lead from judges as well as ring politicians.
- And it planted new trees and grass to provide picturesque views to take the place of the smoky, smelly interior of a blind tiger - views in the Romantic idiom that idealized nature as a setting for polite middle class social interaction.
- It transcended its use as a cracker repository when it became the home of a blind tiger establishment.
- Evidence presented to the grand jury at Waverly, Tenn., may send a justice of the peace, a physician, and the sexton of a church to the penitentiary for running a ‘blind tiger’ in the basement of the church.
Origin Mid 19th century: probably so named to evade prohibition laws, the bars being disguised as exhibition halls for the display of natural curiosities. Definition of blind tiger in US English: blind tiger(also blind pig) noun North American informal An illegal bar. Example sentencesExamples - While there is no question that corrupt policemen protected tenderloin brothels, ‘blind pigs,’ and gambling dens, the police took their lead from judges as well as ring politicians.
- It transcended its use as a cracker repository when it became the home of a blind tiger establishment.
- And it planted new trees and grass to provide picturesque views to take the place of the smoky, smelly interior of a blind tiger - views in the Romantic idiom that idealized nature as a setting for polite middle class social interaction.
- In 1864, the owner of a blind pig in Manchester, New Hampshire brought a suit to recover money damages for the destruction of his bar.
- Evidence presented to the grand jury at Waverly, Tenn., may send a justice of the peace, a physician, and the sexton of a church to the penitentiary for running a ‘blind tiger’ in the basement of the church.
Origin Mid 19th century: probably so named to evade prohibition laws, the bars being disguised as exhibition halls for the display of natural curiosities. |