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Ku-Klux en · VERB
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(dated, transitive) To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.
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: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:
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