jim crow

Questions about jim crow

What does jim crow mean?

jim crow means "barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for jim crow?

Close synonyms include color bar, colour bar, color line, colour line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jim crow a common word?

jim crow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.