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Ku Klux Klan

name
/ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/US/ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/UK/ˌkuː klʊks ˈklan/

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' in order to match the initial letters of the previous two words.

  1. borrowed from κύκλος

Definitions

  1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.

    • The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.

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