Definition of Amucks

1. amuck [n] - See also: amuck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amucks

amrubicin
amsacrine
amscray
amsinckias
amstallite
amthamine
amtman
amtmans
amtrac
amtrack
amtracks
amtracs
amtraks
amu
amuck
amucks (current term)
amulet
amuletic
amuletlike
amulets
amulette
amulettes
amurca
amurcas
amurcous
amurensin
amus
amusable
amuse
amused

Literary usage of Amucks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"are the "• amucks " of the Malays, in which issai Is indiscriminately friend and foe," hair and frantic look, murders or loin he meets without distinction.3 ..."

2. Wilshire Editorials by Gaylord Wilshire (1906)
"The great advance in the price of the Northern Securities stock after the decision does not seem to indicate any great fear of either auctions or amucks. ..."

3. Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War by Philippine Commission (1900-1916, United States (1904)
"They killed 1 Indian, 2 Moros, and wounded 1 Moro woman and 1 Filipino man. The run-amucks were killed by Captain Eltinge and his troop. March 10, IMS. ..."

4. There's No Base Like Home by Harry Charles Witwer (1920)
"... it was now my time to either be a man or a mouse with my charmin' wife runnin' amucks on me like this, like I was merely one of the hired help instead ..."

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