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What is a golliwog?

What is a golliwog? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel.
  2. (offensive) A black person.
  3. (Australia) A hairy caterpillar. [From 1920.]
  4. A receiver of stolen goods. [From ca 1930.]
  5. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (Rhyming slang as "the" golliwogs): greyhound racing
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Examples
I remember collecting the tokens from jam jars, too, so that I could send off for my golliwog badge.
She made a light aside about this tennis player and his similarity to the golliwog on the jampot when she was growing up.
Wilcox's vitality was low that morning, and it was Margaret who decided on a horse for this little girl, a golliwog for that, for the rector's wife a copper warming-tray.
He proposed as she was wrapping up the fourth golliwog, and she gave him her heart and the parcel simultaneously.
He had a golliwog, and a golliwog is an English doll, and he probably left it on my bed.
She had left her golliwog in the room, and couldn't sleep without it.

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