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noun, plural Choc·taws, (especially collectively) Choc·taw for 1.
1.
a member of a large Muskhogean tribe of North American Indians, formerly living chiefly in southern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
2.
the language of the Choctaw, closely related to Chickasaw.
3.
something unintelligible, as speech, illegible handwriting, or an ineffectual explanation; gibberish: My best efforts at clarity were Choctaw to him.
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Choctaw
1722, from Choctaw Chahta, of uncertain meaning, but also said to be from Sp. chato "flattened," for the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of male infants. As a figure skating step, first recorded 1892.
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