| to terrorize, intimidate, or threaten. |
mau-mau  (mou'mou') tr.v. mau-maued, mau-mau·ing, mau-maus Informal To attack or denounce vociferously, especially so as to intimidate: "In years past, [the civil rights leadership] ... would mau-mau the government or the corporate sector or the white community" (Joseph Perkins). [After the Mau Mau, a secret society of Kikuyu terrorists that led a rebellion against the ruling Europeans in Kenya in the 1950s, from Kikuyu mau-mau, sound of the voracious gobbling of a hyena.] |
