Etymology

Tijuana Bible

Today it means: A kind of palm-sized pornographic comic book produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Full definition →

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The story

From Tijuana, deriving from the incorrect belief that these were smuggled across the US-Mexico border, plus Bible, used ironically in this context due to the publications' pornographic nature. Attested since the 1950s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.