end-of-pier

A form of end-of-the-pier — Pertaining to a bawdy, old-fashioned style of broad comedy.

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Meanings

adjectiveend-of-pier (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of end-of-the-pier.

    End-of-pier comedians and working-class comics preferred to get laughs by cracking jokes about darkies and sambos.

    2003, Sukhdev Sandhu, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, HarperCollins, page 227
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