Muskogee

[ muhs-koh-gee ]

/ mʌsˈkoʊ gi /

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noun, plural Mus·ko·gees, (especially collectively) Mus·ko·gee for 2.

a city in E Oklahoma.

a member of an American Indian people formerly constituting part of the Creek Confederacy in Georgia and Alabama and now living in Oklahoma.

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Words nearby Muskogee

“Okie From Muskogee” made fun of hippies and extolled small-town virtues, but it did it with some tongue in cheek.
Vince Gill Confronts Fringe Groups and Gives Country Some Cred|Malcolm Jones|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Headquarters had been opened in Tulsa and Muskogee and others promised in the larger cities.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI|Various
We come to Muskogee first, and then to Tulsa about thirty seven years ago.
Slave Narratives, Oklahoma|Various
Guthrie is one of the headquarters of the Federal courts in the state, the other being Muskogee.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6|Various

The Board was maintaining missions at Muskogee and Atoka, but those locations were not then attractive.
The Choctaw Freedmen|Robert Elliott Flickinger
I moved to Muskogee in 1910, staying there while the times was good and coming to Tulsa some years ago.
Slave Narratives, Oklahoma|Various