Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pertaining to the US South.

1967		L.A. Times 8 Jan. N27/1: For years I played night clubs, working the chitlin’ circuit.
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 199: He instantly understood just how potent Mr. Beaurain’s ‘protection’ was in this chitlin’ city.
2011		Washington Post 9 July 🌐 The chitlin’ circuit was more than just music [...] but Preston Lauterbach’s focus is on how the chitlin’ circuit for live music developed from the late 1930s and nurtured rock ’n’ roll from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s’.
2015		N.Y. Times 15 May 🌐 [B.B. King] was playing 275 one-night stands a year on the so-called chitlin’ circuit.
2011		P. Lauterbach [bk title] The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll.