Ku-Klux

English

Verb

Ku-Klux (third-person singular simple present Ku-Kluxes, present participle Ku-Kluxing, simple past and past participle Ku-Kluxed)

1. (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.