Meanings
plural Jim Crowers
- A proponent of Jim Crow laws
2012, Robert Cottrell, Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball Landis, by contrast, was “not insulting Adolf Hitler, the master Jim Crower of all time
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Americans in this year of the grim fight against the biggest Jim Crower of them all— Hitler.
2001, Larry Lester, Black Baseball's National Showcase1995, Christopher De Santis, Langston Hughes and the Chicago defender Nobody likes riots, but when an over-zealous white Jim Crower collides with a too- much Jim Crowed Negro, hysteric sparks might fly capable of lighting dangerous emotional fires.
Synonyms: Jim Crowist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA proponent of Jim Crow laws
Origin
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Jim Crower. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jim%20Crower
“Jim Crower.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jim%20Crower. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Jim Crower,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jim%20Crower.
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