night rider

1. 1.

   member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge

   Synonymsnightrider

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Questions about night rider

What does night rider mean?

night rider means "member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge".

What is another word for night rider?

Close synonyms include nightrider. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is night rider a common word?

night rider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.