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Ku-Klux en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (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:

Forms

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Ku-Kluxes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
Ku-Kluxed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
Ku-Kluxed Tense=Past lexicographic
Ku-Kluxing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic