"mau-mau" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Mau Mau, the name of a group of anti-British insurgents in Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mau-maus",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mau-mauing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mau-maued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mau-maued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mau-mau (third-person singular simple present mau-maus, present participle mau-mauing, simple past and past participle mau-maued)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "mau-mauer"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West",
          "text": "It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called \"mau-mauing the flack catcher.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize."
      ],
      "id": "en-mau-mau-en-verb-3zXkL-QQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "menace",
          "menace"
        ],
        [
          "intimidate",
          "intimidate"
        ],
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "terrorize",
          "terrorize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mau-mau"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mau-mauer"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Mau Mau, the name of a group of anti-British insurgents in Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mau-maus",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mau-mauing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mau-maued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mau-maued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mau-mau (third-person singular simple present mau-maus, present participle mau-mauing, simple past and past participle mau-maued)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West",
          "text": "It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called \"mau-mauing the flack catcher.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "menace",
          "menace"
        ],
        [
          "intimidate",
          "intimidate"
        ],
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "terrorize",
          "terrorize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mau-mau"
}