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white hope definition

☆ white hope

Informal any person who is expected to bring honor, glory, etc. to some group, place, etc.

Etymology: term orig. applied to Caucasoid boxers who it was thought might defeat black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (c. 1910)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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