DCHP-3

thistle twist tobacco

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a slender, twisted plug of tobacco once common in the old Northwest.

Quotations

1952
Thistle Twist tobacco, commonly known as "niggerhead," was also widely used [c1905], sometimes being mixed with the bark of the red willow which the Indians called kinnikkinick.