Choctaw
a member of a large Muskhogean tribe of North American Indians, formerly living chiefly in southern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
the language of the Choctaw, closely related to Chickasaw.
Informal: Offensive. something unintelligible, as speech, illegible handwriting, or an ineffectual explanation; gibberish: My best efforts at clarity were Choctaw to him.: See also Greek (def. 6).
choctaw, Figure Skating. a type of turn that changes the skater’s orientation in either direction, from skating forward to backward or backward to forward, with a change of foot from right to left or left to right, and a change of edge from outside to inside or inside to outside: The quickstep compulsory dance requires a choctaw from the forward outside edge of the skating foot to the backward inside edge of the other foot.
of or relating to the Choctaw or their language.
Origin of Choctaw
1Words Nearby Choctaw
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How to use Choctaw in a sentence
The first playmates of our infancy were the young Choctaw boys of the then woods of Warren county.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftThey participate equally in the advantages of the Choctaw academy, and have had many of their youth educated at that institution.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftEagle Dance, Choctaw—Holding the eagles tail in the hand, and bodies painted white.
At length six hundred Choctaw warriors arrived, and the army resumed its march.
The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam | John FrostEvery one knows who his mother, in our sense, is: the Choctaw term denotes a tribal status.
The Secret of the Totem | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for choctaw (1 of 2)
/ (ˈtʃɒktɔː) /
skating a turn from the inside edge of one skate to the outside edge of the other or vice versa
Origin of choctaw
1British Dictionary definitions for Choctaw (2 of 2)
/ (ˈtʃɒktɔː) /
plural -taws or -taw a member of a Native American people of Alabama
the language of this people, belonging to the Muskogean family
Origin of Choctaw
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