Tillie and Mac book en · NOUN
Etymology
After the newspaper comic character Tillie the Toiler and her male associate Clarence "Mac" MacDougall.
Meanings
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(slang) Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“a kind of pornographic comic book”).
I had a neat haul: twelve collars and, believe it or not, seven of the farthest-out Tillie and Mac''' books I'd ever seen, plus one of the numbered editions of Henry Miller's Black Spring.
2022, Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People:Fifthly, it is argued that the Tillie and Mac books have no cultural validity or purpose and serve only to titillate and gratify gross desires and private excesses.
1964, The Realist, numbers 48-70, page 18:I have another little book here better than Tillie and Mac books or the ones like it ^([sic]). It has a lot of exciting poses that will give you a thrill.
1949, Robert Mende, Spit and the Stars, page 214:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tillie and Mac books | Number=Plur | lexicographic |