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What does Jim Crow mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Jim Crow? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (derogatory) A black man.
  2. (historical) Southern United States racist and especially segregationist policies in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s, taken collectively.
Noun
  1. (military) A World War II code name for patrols along the British coastline to intercept enemy aircraft, originally intended to warn of invasion in 1940.
  2. (engineering) A double-action planing tool invented by Joseph Whitworth, in which the blade ‘jumps’ to face the other way on the back-stroke.
  3. (rail transport) A tool for bending railway rails, by holding the rail with two arms and pushing a screw into the other side.
Adjective
  1. Discriminatory against African Americans.
  2. Segregated between African Americans and Caucasians.
Verb
  1. To work towards legislation that incorporates a discriminatory caste system or racial segregation
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