white hunter
Americannoun
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a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
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a white man who hunts big game in Africa.
Etymology
Origin of white hunter
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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A chorus girl and a married woman fight over a white hunter in Africa.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019
The designers’ signature evening wear had more classic colors of white, hunter green and black.
From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2019
The safari guide, a white hunter named Robert Wilson, views Macomber with a mixture of disdain and sympathy.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 30, 2017
Thus out of the bush near Nairobi, Kenya, strewing perels of witdom to mark his trail, came a hornrimmed, slyly befuddled big white hunter known to civilized nations as Humorist S. J. Perelman, 59.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They shall meet when the sun rises over the tree-tops; Wa-on-mon will be there and await the white hunter, if he does not run away."
From The Phantom of the River by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
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