blind pig
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A police officer who has been bribed to ignore illegal activities.
noun
A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.
Example Sentences
- "Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers."
- "This was […] the woman whose every look and movement stirred him in a way he couldn't describe (but had tried to, time and again, to his classmates, to the rare Barnard girl he asked to the theater or a concert, and to the tarts and working girls he discovered in the blind pigs and outside the vaudeville houses)."
- "According to a Rutgers University Web site dedicated to the riots, “The Detroit Riot of 1967 began when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after hours drinking club or 'blind pig' in a predominantly black neighborhoods located at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue […]"
- "The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.