Klan
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- proper noun
- /klæn/
- Offensive
- He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
- Ku Klux Klan
- Klux Klan
- Klan cross
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Watch on YouTubeAnd I always want to say the Democratic Party has Ku Klux Klan roots.
- And I always want to say the Democratic Party has Ku Klux Klan roots.
- OK, Jeff Sessions doesn't love the Klan.
- It looks like a New Yorker cartoon of a Klan rally.
- He's a Catholic candidate, was campaigned against by the Klan.
- So the Ku Klux Klan got them out and took down the terrible villains and they were the heroes.
- And he says I'm a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
- And there was something pretty chilling about the Ku Klux Klan citing precedent that the N double ACP created.
- Now, the Ku Klux Klan was defending the parents who wanted to purge black history from the textbooks.
- It sounds like some kind of Klu Klux Klan shit, but it's not.
- I would go the Klan, I guess the Klan and you go, no, it wasn't the Klan.
Examples
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The failure of the Democratic Party to condemn the Klan in 1924 created much dismay.
Academic text (1991) -
The General rides off, followed by a large group of Klan members dressed in full uniform.
Fiction book (1994) -
The cops and the Klan go hand in hand.
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It's gotta look like the Klan did it.
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You voted for the person who the Klan supported.
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But you are letting the Klan do it for you.
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Now, it's interesting that that meeting, which he talks about with the Klan, is also in the FBI file.
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Have you ever been to a Klan meeting, Mr. Pilgrim?
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Apparently, in his mid-twenties, Johnny Boy got involved with the Klan.
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The Klan has a long and disturbing history of racism and violence against minorities.
Synonyms
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A secret group of white people in the American South who used violence to scare and harm Black people
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9.8
A secret group that believes white people are better and uses violence against Black people and other groups
Compounds
- Offensive
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A secret group that believes white people are better and uses violence against Black people and other groups
Surface Forms
Etymology
Klan in the group's name is related to clan ('family') and to the Greek word kuklos ('circle'), so the name was meant to mean a close, secret circle. Today Klan is the name of a racist organization in the United States, and the word brings to mind their history of violence.