apache
a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
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a member of an Athabascan people of the southwestern United States.
any of the several Athabascan languages of Arizona and the Rio Grande basin.
Military. a two-man U.S. Army helicopter designed to attack enemy armor with rockets or a 30mm gun and equipped for use in bad weather and in darkness.
of or relating to an Athabascan people of the southwestern United States or their language.
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The girl had collected plants from Oak Flat that have the “spirit of Chic’chil Bildagoteel,” the name of the sacred spot in the apache language.
This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it | Dana Hedgpeth | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostIn a lawsuit, John Welch, an expert in apache anthropology, said there is no evidence that the United States “compensated the apache treaty rights holders” for Oak Flat, even though a map from the 1800s shows it as land that belonged to the Apaches.
This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it | Dana Hedgpeth | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostKnown as "the land of the standing-up rocks" by the apache, Chiricahua National Monument was used as a hiding place by Cochise and Geronimo during the apache Wars in the 1800s.
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The whole operation used a series of brevity codes from the Indian Wars, and Jimbo was a quarter apache.
The Army, however, has deployed some AH-64 apache gunships into Iraq to strike at ISIS from close in.
Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against ISIS | Dave Majumdar | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLater, American settlers came to feel just the same way about this fierce apache.
Mike Leach Tackles Geronimo the Motivational Murderer | James A. Warren | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBorn in 1829 near the Gila River in what is now Arizona, the legendary Indian warrior Geronimo was a Chiracahua apache.
Mike Leach Tackles Geronimo the Motivational Murderer | James A. Warren | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was no Cochise or Mangas Coloradas—the two great apache war chiefs he fought under.
Mike Leach Tackles Geronimo the Motivational Murderer | James A. Warren | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the apache tornado burst out of the cañon upon the train, Thurstane's first thought was, "Clara!"
Overland | John William De ForestA practical-minded man, he preferred to owe the safety of his carcass to his rival rather than have it impaled on apache lances.
Overland | John William De ForestLittle Sweeny, finding that his mule was being crowded by an apache's horse, uttered some indignant yelps.
Overland | John William De ForestSweeny instantly fired, and brought down another apache, quite accidentally.
Overland | John William De ForestAt that short distance Sweeny would hardly have missed; and the nearest apache, leaning forward with outspread arms, fell dead.
Overland | John William De Forest
British Dictionary definitions for apache (1 of 2)
/ (əˈpɑːʃ, -ˈpæʃ, French apaʃ) /
a Parisian gangster or ruffian
Origin of apache
1British Dictionary definitions for Apache (2 of 2)
/ (əˈpætʃɪ) /
plural Apaches or Apache a member of a North American Indian people, formerly nomadic and warlike, inhabiting the southwestern US and N Mexico
the language of this people, belonging to the Athapascan group of the Na-Dene phylum
Origin of Apache
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