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Jayhawk

Variant of jayhawker

noun

  1. an abolitionist guerrilla of Missouri and Kansas in Civil War days
  2. a robber, raider, or plunderer
  3. Informal a person born or living in Kansas
    also Jayhawk

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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