apache
noun
a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
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apache
1 American
[uh-pahsh, uh-pash, a -pash]
/ əˈpɑʃ, əˈpæʃ, aˈpaʃ /
noun
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apaches
plural
Apache
2
American
[uh-pach-ee]
/ əˈpætʃ i /
noun
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Apaches,
plural
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Apache
plural
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a member of an Athabascan people of the southwestern United States.
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any of the several Athabascan languages of Arizona and the Rio Grande basin.
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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.
adjective
Apache
1
British
/ əˈpætʃɪ /
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people, formerly nomadic and warlike, inhabiting the southwestern US and N Mexico
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the language of this people, belonging to the Athapascan group of the Na-Dene phylum
apache
2
British
/ əˈpɑːʃ, apaʃ, -ˈpæʃ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of apache1
1735–45, < French: Apache
Origin of Apache2
First recorded in 1915–20; from Mexican Spanish, perhaps from Zuni ʔa·paču “Navajos,” presumably applied formerly to the Apacheans (Navajos and Apaches) generally
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He’s Dad the destroyer, who mapped out the steps for the apache dance that defines his children’s lives.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2014
But the broken, jagged heart of this production belongs to Ms. Rodriguez and Mr. Cannavale, who turn their characters’ relationship into a bruising, tragicomic apache dance of love, betrayal and indecision.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2011
The result is a bravura hodgepodge of Spanish and gypsy dances, pas de deux, a smattering of light-footed cupids and dryads and, for some obscure reason, a jig resembling a French apache dance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Chancellor saw this common meeting-ground, this glorified street, filled with a ragged mob of "the baser quality," as on the operatic stage, emptily vocal or evilly skulking for mischief, like the mafia, the apache.
From The World Decision by Robert Herrick
A little chap just like a boy, with smudgy black mustache,— Yet there was nothing juvenile in Julot the apache.
From Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Boeing makes the Apache attack helicopter for militaries around the world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
The U.S. military has grounded its Apache helicopters after two soldiers were killed near Fort Hood, Texas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Also this week, the army landed an Apache attack helicopter at coast guard headquarters, illustrating increased integration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The following month, the artist, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, got an Apache ride with Hegseth at Fort Belvoir, an Army base near Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
There were stories of the Apache Wars in the Wild West, a new circus act called a flying trapeze, and Abraham Lincoln arguing that Kansas should be a free state and not slave.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The Army said the AH-64 Apaches were conducting a training route past the Nashville area, where the country rock artist's hilltop estate is located.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
With the Apaches in pursuit, Bendire placed the egg in his mouth and fled back to his troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
He added that the Apaches “have joined the fight on the southern flank.‘
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Final Arcadia 6, CV 4 Apaches outlast the Falcons in a marathon game to end the league season a perfect 14-0.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
According to Grandma, a hundred years ago a tribe of Apaches had fought the U.S.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
From this radical start, she went on to order the fashionable women of three continents into the turtleneck sweaters of the apaches, to expose their knees and suppress their curves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cowboys, apaches, and residents of Newport have probably far more grievous protests.
From Time Magazine Archive
But remember the crooks in Turn to the Right and the apaches in Seoenfh Heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there is an artist—the artist of whom you talk—who is one of the apaches!
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
As Curfoot crumpled up, Stull caught him; but the tall gambler’s dead weight bore Stull to his knees among the fierce apaches.
From The Dark Star by William Dodge Stevens
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