Usually means: Person engaging in raiding, plundering.
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  1. jayhawker: Merriam-Webster
  2. jayhawker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Jayhawker: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Jayhawker: Wordnik
  5. jayhawker: Wiktionary
  6. jayhawker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Jayhawker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Jayhawker: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Jayhawker: Dictionary.com
  10. Jayhawker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Jayhawker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. jayhawker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Jayhawker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. jayhawker: FreeDictionary.org
  15. jayhawker: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. jayhawker: Encyclopedia

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  1. jayhawker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (jayhawker)

noun:  (uncommon) A native or resident of Kansas
noun:  (historical) An abolitionist raider in the Kansas–Missouri border skirmishes during the American Civil War.
noun:  (by extension) A bandit or marauder

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