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wick⋅i⋅up

  [wik-ee-uhp]
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–noun
1. (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
2. Western U.S. any rude hut.
Also, wick⋅y⋅up, wikiup.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of the Upper Great Lakes Indians < Fox wi⋅kiya⋅pi house < Proto-Algonquian *wi⋅kiwa⋅ʔmi; cf. wigwam
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wick·i·up also wik·i·up   (wĭk'ē-ŭp')   
n.  A frame hut covered with matting, as of bark or brush, used by nomadic Native Americans of North America.

[Fox wiikiyaapi, wigwam.]
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