Klansman

Alternative forms

• Klansman much more common

Origin

klan + -man

Noun

1. A man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan
• 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name
• 1900, Albert Bushnell Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.
2. (offensive, slang) A very offensive term for a white person unrelated to the KKK or racist ideology