nigger twist
English
Etymology
From niggerhead.
Noun
- (Australia) Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property. [from 20th c.]
- 1952 July 6, Sunday Mail, Brisbane:
- It was used for ‘nigger twist’ tobacco and sent to the islands during the war.
- 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 304:
- ‘You wouldn't happen to have a taj of nigger-twist on you?’ asked I.
Synonyms
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