amoks

Noun (1)

amok (plural amoks)

1. One who runs amok; in Malay and Moro/Philippine culture, one who attempts to kill many others, especially expecting that they will be killed themselves.
   • One morning, as we were sitting at breakfast, Mr. Carter's servant informed us that there was an "Amok" in the village--in other words, that a man was "running a muck."1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 272
2. The act of running amok.
   • On the morning of the amok this person met him, and asked him to work at his boat “He replied that he could not, he was very much afflicted.”[…]The amok took place on the 8th, the trial on the 13th, and the execution on the 15th July,—all within eight days.1849, “Malay Amoks Referred to Mahomedanism”, in J. R. Logan, editor, The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, volume III, Singapore: […] G. M. Frederick, “Sentence of death upon a...

Noun (2)

amok (uncountable)

1. (Cambodia) A kind of Southeast Asian curry steamed in banana leaves native to Cambodia.

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