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Whiteboy

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. 2
    A Caucasian male. countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable

    "The words of the whiteboy crept into his mind as he got ready to crawl out of bed—and he once again realized Cassandra hardly ever showered."

  3. 3
    Heroin. slang, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From white + boy.

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