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jimcrow

jimcrow is the alternative letter-case form of Jim Crow.

Meaning of Jim Crow

Verb

Jim Crow (third-person singular simple present Jim Crows, present participle Jim Crowing, simple past and past participle Jim Crowed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To work toward legislation that incorporates a discriminatory caste system or racial segregation.
    • The American Bowling Congress’ 50-odd years of jimcrowing went by the boards during their convention in May which carried a motion to delete the "white males only" clause from their constitution.1950, Editors, “"Important Briefs"”, in Interracial News Service, page 1

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Forms of jimcrow

third-person singular presentjimcrows
present participlejimcrowing
past participlejimcrowed
pastjimcrowed

Questions about jimcrow

What is jimcrow the alternative letter-case form of?
Jimcrow is the alternative letter-case form of Jim Crow.

Words near jimcrow in the dictionary

  1. jimcrack
  2. jimcrackeries
  3. jimcrackery
  4. jimcracks
  5. jimcro
  6. jimcrow
  7. jimcrowed
  8. jimcrowing
  9. jimcrows
  10. jimdandies
  11. jimdandy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jimcrow (page history and authors); Jim Crow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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