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Whiteboy¹

Where it comes from

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

noun Whiteboys

  1. 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.

whiteboy²

Where it comes from

From white + boy.

noun whiteboys · white boy

  1. archaic, countable, uncountable A man or boy who is highly favoured; a pet, a darling. Were war at the gates, I should be one of her white boys.
  2. alternative, countable, historical, uncountable Alternative form of Whiteboy He was a good Irishman when there was no money in the job. He was condemned to death as a whiteboy.
  3. countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable 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.
  4. slang, uncountable Heroin. Coordinate term: whitegirl (“cocaine”)

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@misc{whiteboy_2026,
  title = {whiteboy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whiteboy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}