"Ku-Klux" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "Ku-Klux (third-person singular simple present Ku-Kluxes, present participle Ku-Kluxing, simple past and past participle Ku-Kluxed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ku Klux Klan",
          "orig": "en:Ku Klux Klan",
          "parents": [
            "Organizations",
            "White supremacist ideology",
            "Society",
            "Anti-Semitism",
            "Ideologies",
            "Racism",
            "All topics",
            "Forms of discrimination",
            "Politics",
            "Fundamental",
            "Discrimination"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 1390:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kenneth Wayne Howell, Still the Arena of Civil War, page 229:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "lynch",
          "lynch"
        ],
        [
          "Ku Klux Klan",
          "Ku Klux Klan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated) To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ku-Klux"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ku-Kluxed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "Ku-Klux (third-person singular simple present Ku-Kluxes, present participle Ku-Kluxing, simple past and past participle Ku-Kluxed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Ku Klux Klan"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 1390:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kenneth Wayne Howell, Still the Arena of Civil War, page 229:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities."
      ],
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        [
          "lynch",
          "lynch"
        ],
        [
          "Ku Klux Klan",
          "Ku Klux Klan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, dated) To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Ku-Klux"
}