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blind pig

blind pig noun: a blind tiger or speakeasy.

Noun

blind pig (plural blind pigs)

  1. (US, slang) A blind tiger or speakeasy.
    • Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48
    • This was […] the woman whose every look and movement stirred him in a way he couldn't describe (but had tried to, time and again, to his classmates, to the rare Barnard girl he asked to the theater or a concert, and to the tarts and working girls he discovered in the blind pigs and outside the...1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 29
  2. (Southern US) A police officer who has been bribed to ignore illegal activities.
  3. (Internet) A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.
    • The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 197

Forms of blind pig

pluralblind pigs

Words formed from blind pig

Questions about blind pig

What does blind pig mean?
Blind pig means a blind tiger or speakeasy.
What part of speech is blind pig?
Blind pig is a noun.
What is the plural of blind pig?
The plural of blind pig is blind pigs.

Words near blind pig in the dictionary

  1. blind mole-rat
  2. blind mole-rats
  3. blind nailing
  4. blind passenger
  5. blind passengers
  6. blind pig
  7. blind pigger
  8. blind piggers
  9. blind pigs
  10. blind piles
  11. blind pocket

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