Kaffir Circus

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English

Proper noun

the Kaffir Circus

  1. (finance, slang, historical) Traders in South African mining shares.
    • 1897, The Review of Reviews (volume 16, page 19)
      He became the central figure in a nation of frenzied speculators who made the so-called “Kaffir Circus” the wildest financial orgie in the history of the world.
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