English Explanatory Dictionary

rahoonery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.

Word forms

rahoonery

Etymology

Derived from the suburb of Rahoon in Galway where residents expelled Travellers from their camp by force in 1969; + -ery.

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