night rider
noun
: a member of a secret band who ride masked at night doing acts of violence for the purpose of punishing or terrorizing
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By the end of the school year, pretty much every item in the apparatus of Southern civil-rights resistance had made an appearance in Clinton, from anti-Black slurs and heckling to cross burnings, bombings, and Ku Klux Klan night riders.
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Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Have things really changed all that much since the days of Jim Crow and the night riders?
—Michele Langevine Leiby, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
The White Caps were a band of hooded or masked night riders that used whips, guns and rope on their victims.
—Indystar, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2014
Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Have things really changed all that much since the days of Jim Crow and the night riders?
—Michele Langevine Leiby, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
The White Caps were a band of hooded or masked night riders that used whips, guns and rope on their victims.
—Indystar, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2014
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First Known Use
1856, in the meaning defined above
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