Ku-Klux
English
editVerb
editKu-Klux (third-person singular simple present Ku-Kluxes, present participle Ku-Kluxing, simple past and past participle Ku-Kluxed)
- (transitive, dated) To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.
- 1872, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 1390:
- 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.
- 2012, Kenneth Wayne Howell, Still the Arena of Civil War, page 229:
- 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.