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whiteboy

noun
white·​boy

Definition of whiteboy

1 archaic : a favored person : pet
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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1592, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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