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Waipahu

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[wahy-pah-hoo] / waɪˈpɑ hu /

noun

  1. a city in Hawaii, on S Oahu.


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Surveillance footage showed him arriving in his pickup truck at a Waipahu acupuncture office in January, walking inside carrying a shopping bag and leaving 48 seconds later, according to a detective affidavit filed in court.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

“Can you believe it’s almost time to begin the new school year?” she asked a socially distanced crowd at Waipahu High School near Honolulu in late July.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2021

During her time in Hawaii, she visited a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Waipahu on Sunday and later joined military families for a barbecue at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Others from Ewa and Waipahu would catch the train into Honolulu, get off at the depot by Aala Park and take a streetcar to campus.

From Washington Times • Oct. 11, 2015

With these he flew to the cripple, whom he lifted and bore in his flight as far as Waipio, and there dropped him at a point just below where the water bursts forth at Waipahu.

From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thrum, Thomas G. (Thomas George)