Meanings
plural Tillie and Mac books
- slangSynonym of Tijuana Bible (“a kind of pornographic comic book”).
I have another little book here better than Tillie and Mac books or the ones like it ^([sic]). It has a lot of exciting poses that will give you a thrill.
1949, Robert Mende, Spit and the Stars, page 2142 more examples
Fifthly, it is argued that the Tillie and Mac books have no cultural validity or purpose and serve only to titillate and gratify gross desires and private excesses.
1964, The Realist, numbers 48-70, page 18I had a neat haul: twelve collars and, believe it or not, seven of the farthest-out Tillie and Mac books I'd ever seen, plus one of the numbered editions of Henry Miller's Black Spring.
2022, Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence PeopleSynonyms: Tijuana Bible
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Tijuana Bible (“a kind of pornographic comic book”).
Origin
After the newspaper comic character Tillie the Toiler and her male associate Clarence "Mac" MacDougall.
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