Usually means: Prospective savior, typically in sports.
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  1. white hope: Merriam-Webster
  2. white hope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. white hope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. white hope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. white hope: Vocabulary.com
  6. white hope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. white hope: Wiktionary
  8. white hope: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. white hope: Dictionary.com
  10. white hope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. The White Hope (disambiguation), The White Hope, White hope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. white hope: Rhymezone
  13. white hope: FreeDictionary.org
  14. white hope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. white hope: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. white hope: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (White hope)

noun:  Ellipsis of great white hope. [A highly skilled white/Caucasian challenger for leadership in a field whose top ranks are dominated by non-Caucasians; especially a field which was once dominated by white Caucasians, and is now dominated by those of black-African descent.]

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