Whiteboy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
white + boy, from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.
Noun[edit]
Whiteboy (plural Whiteboys)
- 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.