Tijuana Bible

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of palm-sized pornographic comic book produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. slang
    — MR BARNES. I would say that the most prevalent [pornographic literature] would be the type known to us, or in the language of the people who deal in it, ... the Tijuana Bible, a small [cartoon] booklet about 2 by 3 inches, that is very lewd and very obscene in its character. ... [I]t [shows all types of sexual perversions].

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Tijuana Bibles plural Tijuana bible alternative

词源

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.
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