# Tijuana Bible

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A kind of palm-sized pornographic comic book produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s.

## Etymology
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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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