Usually means: Former Confederate supporting Reconstruction policies.
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  1. scalawag: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scalawag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scalawag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scalawag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scalawag: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scalawag, scalawag: Wordnik
  7. scalawag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scalawag: Wiktionary
  9. scalawag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scalawag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scalawag: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scalawag: Dictionary.com
  13. scalawag: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scalawag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scalawag (disambiguation), Scalawag (film), Scalawag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scalawag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scalawag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scalawag: Rhymezone
  19. Scalawag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. SCALAWAG: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. scalawag: Free Dictionary
  22. scalawag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scalawag: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. scalawag: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalawag: A Word A Day
  2. scalawag: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalawag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Scalawag: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (derogatory) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.
noun:  (informal) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal.
noun:  (derogatory, archaic) A scrawny cow.
noun:  (derogatory, US, archaic or historical) Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
noun:  (Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel

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