mau-mau

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Once again, we must mau-mau Israel into making the hard choices for peace and all that.

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  1. transitive verb 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).

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  • Once again, we must mau-mau Israel into making the hard choices for peace and all that. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • - Portfolio. com "Obviously, part of the strategy here is to 'work the refs' -- that is, to mau-mau reporters, editors, producers and commentators into going easier on John McCain and harder on Barack Obama," writes Jeff Bercovici. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • There is a reason we call Muslim mau-mau-ers the give in. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • By the late '90s I realized the reflexive fear of being accused of being "librul media" by these mau-mau masters was preventing me from reporting thoroughly, accurately, or honestly. —  Crooks and Liars
  • Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco. —  VDARE.com: Blog Articles
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  1. 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.
 

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