Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jim crower

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables: jim crow-er
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A proponent of Jim Crow laws

Example Sentences

"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"
"Americans in this year of the grim fight against the biggest Jim Crower of them all— Hitler."
"1995, 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."

Etymology

From Jim Crow + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Jim Crow

Inflected Forms

Jim Crowers (plural)

Synonyms

Jim Crowist

Questions

What does jim crower mean?: A proponent of Jim Crow laws
Where does jim crower come from?: From Jim Crow + -er.

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