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nigger twist

noun

Etymology

From niggerhead.

Definitions

  1. Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property.

    • ‘Did you require much capital to start out here, Bob?’ I inquired. ‘Just on one hundred pounds, a couple of pack-mules, a saddle, a few old bags and a bit of wire, a case of nigger twist tobacco, an axe, - and a rifle thrown in.’
    • It was used for ‘nigger twist’ tobacco and sent to the islands during the war.
    • ‘You wouldn't happen to have a taj of nigger-twist on you?’ asked I.

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