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Meaning of WHITEBOY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\White"boy`\, n.
1. A favorite. [Obs.] See {White}, a., 6. ``One of God's
   whiteboys.'' --Bunyan.
2. One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose
   in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection
   of tithes, the members of which were so called from the
   white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.
 
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