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COLOR BAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does color bar mean?
• COLOR BAR (noun)
The noun COLOR BAR has 1 sense:
1. barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
Familiarity information: COLOR BAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
color bar; color line; colour bar; colour line; Jim Crow
Hypernyms ("color bar" is a kind of...):
ideological barrier (a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies)
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