(North America, now, historical) A restrictive religious-based law in colonial New England, especially preventing leisure activities on a Sunday.
2001, David Sedaris, diary entry January 22, in Theft by Finding, Back Bay Books 2017, p. 441:
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(North America, by extension) Any puritanical or restrictive law, especially one that prohibits or restricts commercial activity on a Sunday.
: [I]t's actually a way around the Swiss blue laws demanding that shops close from Saturday afternoon until Monday morning. The laws apply everywhere but the airport, so they built a massive supermarket in the Swiss Air terminal.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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