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blind pig
noun- a speakeasy, where alcohol is served illegally US, 1886
- Of the 50-odd blind pigs in 52nd Street, between fifth and sixth, only two remained. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 43, 1948
- They hadn’t been able to locate him in any of the blind pigs or whorehouses where he usually holed up, but he could have found a new place. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 142, 1954
- There is no way of estimating how many night clubs, speakeasies and blind pigs existed in the Broadway sector then. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 138, 1956
- I found out from arguments between Mama and Pap that cousin Bunny had been a fast twenty five year old hustler who was operating a blind pig and poker trap in Vicksburg’s sin district that night that Mama saw Papa for the first time. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 56, 1969
- Prohibition closed down every bar in the city. Blind pigs sprouted like crocuses in April. “We had about four bootleg joints right around here,” Alex Nickerson told me, “and there were dozens and dozens all around the city.” — Harry Bruce, Down Home, p. 262, 1988
- If you ever become a low-bottom boozer, you will learn that the safest places to drink, provided you know the rules, are blue-collar saloons, pool halls, hilbilly juke joints, and blind pigs where two-thirds of the clientele have rap sheets. — James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending, p. 67, 2006
- in poker, an unskilled but lucky player US
From the adage that even a blind pig will find an acorn over time. - — John Vorhaus, The Big Book of Poker Slang, p. 7, 1996
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