chitlins, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chitlins n.

[US black/Southern pron. of SE chitterlings, the intestines, usu. of pigs]

(US, Southern) the bowels.

1835		A.B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes (1848) 10: My soul if I don’t jump down his throat, and gallop every chitterling out of him].
[1848		W.E. Burton Waggeries and Vagaries 50: If my sow-licitude is hurtin’ yer chitterlings, why be smashed into a hog’s pudding].
1933		M.K. Rawlings South Moon 313: I never figgered he’d have the chitlins when the time come [DARE].
1938		M.K. Rawlings Yearling 160: Not him. His chitlin’s is made o’ iron.

In compounds

chitlins 101 (n.) [self-mockery; the stereotyped black love of soul food, the recipes of which often feature offal or chitterlings]

(US black campus) any form of Black Studies course.

1994

C. Major Juba to Jive 94: Chitlins 101 n. (1960s–1970s) Used primarily by blacks themselves, this was a derogatory phrase applied to any black studies course in U.S. schools.

Chitlin Switch (n.) (also Chitterling Switch)

(US black) the stereotypical small Southern town.

1926		Odum & Johnson Negro Workaday Songs 173: Way down yonder on chit’lin’switch ... Bull frog jump from ditch to ditch.
c.1940		Slim Gaillard [song title] Chitlin Switch Blues.
1961		C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 21: Most Negroes live together [...] in their own communities, such being known as [...] ‘Catfish Row,’ and ‘Possum Run,’ and ‘Chitterling Switch.’.
1970		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 111: If you ever think about going back home to Chitlin’ Switch, / I want you to tell everybody that you met Pimpin’ Sam, a bad, bad, sonofabitch.
1993		Omen Technology Inc. 🌐 Under the provisions of the East Chitlin Switch, Kansas, Wheat Silo Subsidy Act (P.L. 100-872398-A), Congress has mandated the FAA to regulate the activities of the formerly unregulated Mile High Club (MHC).
a.2000		N. Liebmann Firehat 🌐 Adolph Hickler, Sheriff of the township of Chitlin Switch, and part time exterminator at the Arkansas State House got the job after voting for Clinton for Governor 148 times in the same election.