English Explanatory Dictionary

Whiteboy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland, using violent tactics to defend tenant farmers' land rights for subsistence farming.
noun
  1. A Caucasian male.
  2. Heroin.

Pronunciation

En-au-whiteboy.ogg

Word forms

Whiteboy Whiteboys white boy

Etymology

From white + boy, from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.

Derived words

Whiteboyism
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