Choctaw (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
  4. a type of turn that changes the skater’s orientation in either direction, from skating forward to backward or backward to forward, with a change of foot from right to left or left to right, and a change of edge from outside to inside or inside to outside: The quickstep compulsory dance requires a choctaw from the forward outside edge of the skating foot to the backward inside edge of the other foot.
adjective
  1. of or relating to the Choctaw or their language.
noun
  1. a turn from the inside edge of one skate to the outside edge of the other or vice versa
noun
  1. a member of a Native American people of Alabama
  2. the language of this people, belonging to the Muskogean family
Choctaw (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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