APACHE

noun (plural ~ or ~s) Etymology: American Spanish, perhaps from Zuni ʔapaču Navajo, ~an Date: 1745 a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the southwestern United States, any of the Athabascan languages of the ~ people, 3. not capitalized \French, from ~ ~ Indian] a member of a gang of criminals especially in Paris, ruffian , ~an adjective or noun