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Whiteboy

noun

Etymology

From white + boy, from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as whiteboy — “white + boy”

Definitions

  1. A member of the Whiteboys, a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland,…

    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.

  2. A Caucasian male.

    • The words of the whiteboy crept into his mind as he got ready to crawl out of bed—and he once again realized Cassandra hardly ever showered.
    • whiteboy still more than anything else this betrays me.
    • “Shut up, whiteboy. How does it feel to hit a girl? You feel strong?

  3. Heroin.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA