Ku-Klux

present singular third person Ku-Kluxes · participle present Ku-Kluxing · participle past Ku-Kluxed · past Ku-Kluxed

1. datedtransitiveTo lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.

   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.

   1872, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 1390

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   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.

   2012, Kenneth Wayne Howell, Still the Arena of Civil War, page 229