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Ku Klux Klan definition

☆ Ku· Klux· Klan (ko̵̅o̅′ kluks′ klan′, kyo̵̅o̅′-)

  1. a secret society of white men founded in the S States after the Civil War to reestablish and maintain white supremacy
  2. 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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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