Mau Mau

Definitions

1. A group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya, active in the 1950's.
2. A card game for two or more players, similar to crazy eights.

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Examples

“Just as it is sometimes impossible to find⟳ a Briton who voted for Margaret Thatcher, and every Frenchman’s father appears to have⟳ been in the Resistance, every Kikuyu seems to have⟳ had a father who fought valiantly for Mau Mau.”

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