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niggerhead tobacco Fur Trade, Hist. 
a slender, twisted plug of tobacco once common in the old Northwest.
See also: head negrohead tobacco niggerhead (def. 1) North West twist thistle twist tobacco
- 1860 After that I would smoke half a plug of "nigger-head tobacco."
- 1910 (1921) A chaw of niggerhead tobaccer'd be more in his line.
- 1936 It is probably the lineal descendant of the nigger-head tobacco used in the Indian trade years ago, and as it came in ropes it was sold by the inch.
- 1860 After that I would smoke half a plug of "nigger-head tobacco."