"Tijuana Bible" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "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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          "ref": "1955, Mr. Bobo, Mr. Barnes, US Senate, Hearing Before the Subcommitee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, page 374:",
          "text": "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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        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Bernard Wolfe, Memoirs of a not altogether shy pornographer, page 18:",
          "text": "“You acquainted with the Tijuana Bibles?” ¶ “I've heard a lot goes on in those border towns but not much that calls for religious reference works.” ¶ “These bibles they don't use, they make, and fast as they come off the presses they go over the border.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Ernest Brawley, The Alamo Tree, page 209:",
          "text": "It was a Tijuana bible. They sold them in the newspaper kiosk in the Jardin Obregon, under the counter.",
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        }
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        "A kind of palm-sized pornographic comic book produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A kind of palm-sized pornographic comic book produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s."
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        {
          "word": "blue bible"
        },
        {
          "word": "bluesie"
        },
        {
          "word": "eight-pager"
        },
        {
          "word": "Jo-Jo book"
        },
        {
          "word": "Tillie and Mac book"
        },
        {
          "word": "two-by-four"
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        {
          "word": "Tijuana bible"
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        "Tijuana bible"
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  "word": "Tijuana Bible"
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{
  "etymology_text": "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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          "ref": "1955, Mr. Bobo, Mr. Barnes, US Senate, Hearing Before the Subcommitee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, page 374:",
          "text": "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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        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Bernard Wolfe, Memoirs of a not altogether shy pornographer, page 18:",
          "text": "“You acquainted with the Tijuana Bibles?” ¶ “I've heard a lot goes on in those border towns but not much that calls for religious reference works.” ¶ “These bibles they don't use, they make, and fast as they come off the presses they go over the border.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Ernest Brawley, The Alamo Tree, page 209:",
          "text": "It was a Tijuana bible. They sold them in the newspaper kiosk in the Jardin Obregon, under the counter.",
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        }
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        },
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