Ku Klux

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Ku Klux Klan.

   “The Ku Klux’s gone,” said Atticus. “It’ll never come back.”

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

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   […] 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.

   1872, United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Benn Pitman, Louis Freeland Post, Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. (page 775)

plural Ku Kluxes

1. A member of the Ku Klux Klan.

   […] 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.

   1872, United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Benn Pitman, Louis Freeland Post, Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. (page 775)