Mau Mau

See also: mau-mau and Mau-Mau

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Mau Mau

  1. A group of anti-British insurgents in colonial Kenya, active in the 1950's.
    • 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
      Just as it is sometimes impossible to find a Briton who voted for Margaret Thatcher, and every Frenchman’s father appears to have been in the Resistance, every Kikuyu seems to have had a father who fought valiantly for Mau Mau.
  2. (games) A card game for two or more players, similar to crazy eights.

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