Apache Definition

ə-păsh, ä-päsh
apaches
noun
A member of the Parisian underworld.
American Heritage
A gangster or thug of Paris.
Webster's New World
A member of a Native American people inhabiting the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Various Apache tribes offered strong resistance to encroachment on their territory in the latter half of the 19th century. Present-day Apache populations are located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
American Heritage
A member of a group of North American Indian peoples of the SW U.S. and N Mexico.
Webster's New World
Any of the Apachean languages of the Apache.
American Heritage
adjective
Designating a dance, performed typically as an exhibition in cabarets, that represents an apache handling his girl in a brutal, masterful way.
Webster's New World
pronoun

The languages of any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.

Wiktionary
The town of Apache, Oklahoma (zipcode 73006)
Wiktionary

Origin of Apache

  • American Spanish probably from Zuni ʔaapaču pl. of paču Navajo

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • American Spanish, most likely from Zuni ˀa˙paču (“Navajos”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French apache Apache, ruffian from English Apache

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French apache

    From Wiktionary

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