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KKK

KKK is the initialism of Ku Klux Klan.

KKK is the initialism of Katipunan.

Meaning of Ku Klux Klan

Proper noun

the Ku Klux Klan

  1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.
    • The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653

Meaning of Katipunan

Proper noun

the Katipunan

  1. (historical) The Filipino revolutionary secret organization led by Andres Bonifacio, whose discovery led to the Philippine Revolution in order to gain independence from the Spanish Empire.

Origin of KKK

The Philippine sense is from Tagalog KKK.

Words formed from KKK

Questions about KKK

What is KKK the initialism of?
KKK is the initialism of Ku Klux Klan.

Words near KKK in the dictionary

  1. kkachi durumagi
  2. kkakdugi
  3. KKB
  4. KKE
  5. kkj
  6. KKK
  7. KKKanada
  8. KKKer
  9. KKKers
  10. KKKonfederate
  11. kkoktu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: KKK (page history and authors); Ku Klux Klan (page history and authors); Katipunan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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