Ku Klux

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English[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

the Ku Klux

  1. Short for Ku Klux Klan.
    • 1872, United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Benn Pitman, Louis Freeland Post, Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. (page 775)
      […] there was Billy McKinney, I don't know whether he was a Ku Klux or not; I suppose the reason why I did not say I would not join the Ku Klux was because I hadn't sense enough.

Noun[edit]

Ku Klux (plural Ku Kluxes)

  1. A member of the Ku Klux Klan.
    • 1872, United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Benn Pitman, Louis Freeland Post, Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. (page 775)
      […] there was Billy McKinney, I don't know whether he was a Ku Klux or not; I suppose the reason why I did not say I would not join the Ku Klux was because I hadn't sense enough.
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