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Ku-Klux

Ku-Klux verb: to lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.

Verb

Ku-Klux (third-person singular simple present Ku-Kluxes, present participle Ku-Kluxing, simple past and past participle Ku-Kluxed)

  1. (dated, transitive) To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.
    • Caldwell was taken up — two Caldwells — on a charge of Ku-Kluxing. They proved that they were twenty miles away from the scene of operation.1872, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 1390
    • A group of disguised men took the boy from his home, robbed him, and then tortured him before murdering him. Hearing from a correspondent, the editor of the Paris Vindicator wrote that the lad was "Ku-Kluxed" (beaten) to death.2012, Kenneth Wayne Howell, Still the Arena of Civil War, page 229

Forms of Ku-Klux

third-person singular presentKu-Kluxes
present participleKu-Kluxing
past participleKu-Kluxed
pastKu-Kluxed

Questions about Ku-Klux

What does Ku-Klux mean?
Ku-Klux means to lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.
What part of speech is Ku-Klux?
Ku-Klux is a verb.
What is the past tense of Ku-Klux?
The past tense of Ku-Klux is Ku-Kluxed.

Words near Ku-Klux in the dictionary

  1. ku ku jiao
  2. ku ku jiaos
  3. Ku truck
  4. Ku trucks
  5. Ku-ch'eng
  6. Ku-Klux
  7. Ku-Kluxed
  8. Ku-Kluxes
  9. Ku-Kluxing
  10. Ku-ling
  11. Ku-ring-gai

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