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whitecapper

whitecapper noun: synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).

Noun

whitecapper (plural whitecappers)

  1. (US, historical) Synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).
    • Deputy United States Marshal H. B. Holman returned here on the Kansas City Southern Railroad, to which place he was called by a message from the manager of a large fruit-growing company, asking protection from whitecappers.1905 April 12, “Mexican Laborers Warned to Leave: Whitecappers Posted Warnings on Doors of Cabins Occupied by the Mexicans Near Horatio”, in Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, via...
    • To the gratification of many local whites, an all-white jury acquitted Brown of the charge of murder and ruled that the shooting of the whitecapper had been a justifiable homicide.1993, William Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 27
    Synonyms:
    whitecap

Synonyms of whitecapper

Forms of whitecapper

pluralwhitecappers

Origin of whitecapper

From white + cap + -er, after the white hoods worn by some.

Questions about whitecapper

What does whitecapper mean?
Whitecapper means synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).
What part of speech is whitecapper?
Whitecapper is a noun.
What is the plural of whitecapper?
The plural of whitecapper is whitecappers.

Words near whitecapper in the dictionary

  1. whitebreams
  2. Whitebridge
  3. Whitebrook
  4. whitecap
  5. whitecapped
  6. whitecapper
  7. whitecappers
  8. whitecapping
  9. whitecaps
  10. Whitecastle
  11. whitecedar

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