Meaning of whitecapper | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of whitecap (“type of vigilante”).

US, historical

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level