Kaffir Circus
Appearance
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- (finance, slang, historical) Traders in South African mining shares.
- 1897, The Review of Reviews, volume 16, page 19:
- He became the central figure in a nation of frenzied speculators who made the so-called “Kaffir Circus” the wildest financial orgie in the history of the world.