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jayhawker的意思

jayhawker

基本解释

n. 拥护废奴的游击队员;强盗

英文词源

jayhawker (n.)
American English, 1858, originally "freebooter, guerrilla, Kansas irregular" (especially one who came from the North). Hence back-formed verb jayhawk "harass" (1866).