blind pig

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Etymology

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Particularly: “Said to be from a practice of charging admission to see a blind animal and providing liquor for free as per [1]

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Noun

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blind pig (plural blind pigs)

  1. (US, slang) A blind tiger or speakeasy. [from 19th c.]
    • 1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48:
      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.
    • 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 29:
      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 vaudeville houses).
    • 2012, Jeremy Williams, Detroit: The Black Bottom Community:
      According to a Rutgers University Web site dedicated to the riots, “The Detroit Riot of 1967 began when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after hours drinking club or 'blind pig' in a predominantly black neighborhoods located at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue []
  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.
    • 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 197:
      The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig.

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