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Tuskegee.

A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on.

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Meaning & usage

name/tʌsˈkiːɡiː/
  1. A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on.

  2. A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States.

  3. A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States.

  4. The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.

  5. Tuskegee National Forest.

  6. Tuskegee University.

Where this word comes from

From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.

noun/tʌsˈkiːɡiː/
  1. An unethical experiment on humans.

  2. One of the Tuskegee Airmen.

    historical · rare
Where this word comes from

From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.

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