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mau-mau
verb
to bully, especially using confrontational political arguments that play on racial guilt US
Coined as a verb by Tom Wolfe based on the name of a secret society organised to expel European settlers from Kenya.- Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco. — Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, p. 97, 1970
- Yeah, yeah it could work if Cynthia wrote the kind of proposal they needed, an airtight, fantastic piece of bureaucratic bullshit ... mau-maued into place by the right kind of militant niggerism. — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 153, 1985
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