nigger twist

English

Etymology

From niggerhead.

Noun

nigger twist (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Strong, rough tobacco of the kind issued to Aboriginal labourers on a rural property. [from 20th c.]
   • 1952 July 6, Sunday Mail, Brisbane:

     It was used for ‘nigger twist’ tobacco and sent to the islands during the war.

   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 304:

     ‘You wouldn't happen to have a taj of nigger-twist on you?’ asked I.

Synonyms

• nigger tobacco