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Mau Mau

[mou mou]
–noun, plural Mau Maus, (especially collectively) Mau Mau.
a member of a revolutionary society in Kenya, established in the early 1950s, that consisted chiefly of Kikuyu and engaged in terrorist activities in an attempt to drive out the European settlers and to give government control to the native Kenyans.

Origin:
< Kikuyu

mau-mau

[mou-mou]
–verb (used with object) Slang.
to terrorize, intimidate, or threaten.

Origin:
1970; coined by Tom Wolfe in Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; see Mau Mau
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