Klan
English
    
    Alternative forms
    
Etymology
    
Ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /klæn/
- Audio (US) - (file) 
- Homophone: clan
- Rhymes: -æn
Proper noun
    
the Klan
- Ku Klux Klan
- 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 745:- The soldiers made arrests right and left, swearing to wipe out the Klan if they had to put every white man in Atlanta in jail.
 
- 2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas:- I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me
 
 
Derived terms
    
German
    
    Pronunciation
    
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -aːn
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