mau-maued; mau-mauing; mau-maus
Definition of mau-mau
now often offensive, see usage paragraph below
: to intimidate (someone, such as an official) through hostile confrontation or threats usually for social or political gain
Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.— Tom Wolfe
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The first known use of mau-mau was in 1970
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