lone ranger

plural lone rangers

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lone Ranger.

alternative lone ranger

1. A hero of westerns who wore a mask.

   Yet you never tired of the famous fade-out: "Who was that masked man, anyway? ... That was. . . the Lone Ranger!"

   2000, Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio, page 200

plural Lone Rangers · alternative lone ranger

1. idiomaticA solitary, sometimes mysterious or heroic, person.

   The Lone Ranger is always alone in a wilderness he does not quite call home.

   1992, M. Annette Jaimes, The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance, page 428

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   This requires them to lead a double life: as Lone Ranger by day, husband and father by night.

   2002, Megan Jennaway, Sisters and Lovers: Women and Desire in Bali, page 128

   While Matsuoka's tendency to act alone, his "lone-ranger" style of diplomacy, served him well in maintaining secrecy, it deprived him of effective staff work […].

   2002, David John Lu, Agony of Choice: Matsuoka Yosuke and the Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1880-1946, page 169