Ku Klux Klan

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' in order to match the initial letters of the previous two words.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/

the Ku Klux Klan

1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.

   Synonyms: Klan, KKK, Klux

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653:

     The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.

• KKK
• Klansman
• Ku-Klux

• nightrider
• whitecapper

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Ku Klux Klan m or f

1. Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan n

1. Ku Klux Klan