(intransitive, British, informal, potentially, _, offensive) To act with honour, decency, and responsibility.
(intransitive, British, informal, potentially, _, offensive) To act with honour, decency, and responsibility.
No comments yet — say something.
Add your own interpretation of "play the white man".
UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
See all British & Irish slang slang on Slangora.
Browse all slang words starting with P.
(British, idiomatic) To misbehave.
(India, informal) Humanity which excludes all people of color (and sometimes all women).
An internet slang spelling of white, typically used to describe white people. The alternate spelling can function neutrally as a stylistic variant or carry a mocking, ironic, or distancing edge depending on context. Often appears in social media commentary about white culture, white privilege, or white behavior, where the orthographic shift signals a critical or satirical stance. The alternate spelling creates just enough distance from the standard word to signal that the speaker is examining whiteness as a cultural or social phenomenon.
In a white manner.