Meaning of blind pig | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A blind tiger or speakeasy.
   US, slang
2. A police officer who has been bribed to ignore illegal activities.
   Southern-US
3. A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.
   Internet

Examples

“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.”

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