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Jim crow
Meaning
Noun
●
In Military:
A World War II
code name
for
patrols
along the British
coastline
to
intercept
enemy
aircraft
,
originally
intended
to
warn
of
invasion
in 1940.
●
In Engineering:
A
double-action
planing
tool
invented
by Joseph Whitworth, in which the
blade
‘jumps’ to
face
the other way
on the back-stroke.
●
In Rail transportation:
A
tool
for
bending
railway
rails
, by
holding
the
rail
with two
arms
and
pushing
a
screw
into the other side.
Adj
●
Discriminatory against African Americans.
●
Segregated between African Americans and Caucasians.
Verb
●
To work towards
legislation
that
incorporates
a
discriminatory
caste
system or
racial
segregation.
Name
🤬
A
black
man.
●
Southern United States
racist
and especially
segregationist
policies
in the
late
1800s and early to
mid
1900s,
taken
collectively.
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