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patterrollers

patterrollers is the plural of patterroller.

Meaning of patterroller

Noun

patterroller (plural patterrollers)

  1. (historical, African-American Vernacular) A member of a slave patrol.
    • […]I'll break yo neck, I'll crack yo head / I'll wallop you twel I make you think / I'm de patter-roller, you wall-eyed slink!".1881, Joel Chandler Harris, The Tar-baby: And Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, New York: D. Appleton

Questions about patterrollers

What is patterrollers the plural of?
Patterrollers is the plural of patterroller.

Words near patterrollers in the dictionary

  1. patterns
  2. patterns up
  3. patternwise
  4. patterny
  5. patterroller
  6. patterrollers
  7. patters
  8. patters flash
  9. pattersome
  10. Patterson
  11. Patterson Lakes

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