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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A Caucasian male.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable
Qualifier: literal
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noun
Heroin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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History
From white + boy, from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.
From white + boy.
