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Definition of whiteboy
2 usually capitalized
[so called from their wearing white shirts outside their other clothes as a means of recognition on their night raids] : one of an agrarian association formed among the Irish peasants in 1761 especially to redress their grievances against their landlords and to resist collection of tithes
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The first known use of whiteboy was in 1592
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