Definition of "jayhawker" []

• One of the free-soil guerrillas in Kansas and Missouri during the border disputes of 1854 to 1859. (noun)
• A Unionist guerrilla. (noun)
• Informal A native or resident of Kansas. (noun)

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• "The way he talks of it, the term might have been a colloquial term applied to a jayhawker or a patroller."
• "He was a merciless and most unscrupulous jayhawker ...."
• ""Skedaddle, you damn jayhawker," was his cavalier farewell."