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Jim noun- the name given to a friend or offered as a gesture of friendliness US, 1899
Black/jazz slang subverting the racism of JIM CROW- Jim, this jive you got is gassed. — Mezz Mezzrow, 1946, quoted in Waiting For The Man by Harry Shapiro, 1999
- in film-making, an all-purpose forename that is prefixed to a worker’s informal job title UK
- Sparks is the universal word for a working electrician–though in the film studios usually preceded by Jim: Jim Chippy [carpenter], Jim Rigger, Jim Sparks ... never Jim Producer, though. — Red Daniells, 1980
- an interested loiterer and observer in an area where sexual trade is conducted UK
- Wherever prostitutes congregate with their clients [...] there will be other loiterers – the “jims”, the “men in raincoats”, who watch the transactions and purchased intimacies in a morbid and unhealthy silence. — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
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