Ku Klux Klan

The definition of Ku Klux Klan is a secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups.

(noun)

An example of the Ku Klux Klan is a group of men who are anti-black, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic.

See Ku Klux Klan in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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a secret society of white men founded in the S States after the Civil War to reestablish and maintain white supremacy
a secret society organized in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1915 as “the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”: it is anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, etc., and uses terrorist methods

Origin: Ku Klux + klan, arbitrary sp. for clan

See Ku Klux Klan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun Abbr. KKK

A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism.
A secret fraternal organization of similar intent founded in Georgia in 1915.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps alteration of Greek kuklos, circle; see cycle

Origin: + alteration of clan

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