Kickapoos

Variant of Kickapoo

Kickapoo definition

☆ Kicka·poo (kik′ə po̵̅o̅′)

noun

  1. pl. Kickapoos -·poos′ or Kickapoo -·poo′ a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in N Illinois and S Wisconsin, now living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and N Mexico
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: < Kickapoo kiikaapoa < ?

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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