whitecapper
Noun
Synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).
Usage- US usage
- Historical
- Examples
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More examples (2)
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.
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.
Word forms
whitecappers