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nightriding

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night⋅rid⋅er

[nahyt-rahy-der]
–noun
one of a band of mounted men, esp. in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against blacks and black sympathizers.

Origin:
1875–80; night + rider


nightriding, noun
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