English Explanatory Dictionary

Tijuana Bible

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of palm-sized pornographic comic book produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Tijuana Bible.

Word forms

Tijuana Bible Tijuana Bibles

Etymology

From Tijuana, deriving from the incorrect belief that these were smuggled across the US-Mexico border, plus Bible, used ironically in this context due to the publications' pornographic nature. Attested since the 1950s.

Synonyms

blue bible bluesie eight-pager Jo-Jo book Tillie and Mac book two-by-four
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