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Ku-Kluxing

Ku-Kluxing is the present participle and gerund of Ku-Klux.

Meaning of Ku-Klux

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

Questions about Ku-Kluxing

What is Ku-Kluxing the present participle and gerund of?
Ku-Kluxing is the present participle and gerund of Ku-Klux.

Words near Ku-Kluxing in the dictionary

  1. Ku trucks
  2. Ku-ch'eng
  3. Ku-Klux
  4. Ku-Kluxed
  5. Ku-Kluxes
  6. Ku-Kluxing
  7. Ku-ling
  8. Ku-ring-gai
  9. Ku-ring-gai Chase
  10. Ku-shan
  11. Ku-shih

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