Meaning of Ku-Klux | Babel Free

Definitions

To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.

dated, transitive

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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