/heuh hoh"keuhm/ , adj.
1. of, belonging to, or characteristic of an American Indian culture of the central and southern deserts of Arizona, about A.D. 450-1450, roughly contemporaneous with the Anasazi culture to the north.
n.
2. the Hohokam culture.
[ coined by U.S. anthropologist J.W. Fewkes
huhugam those who are gone, a term applied to the ancient inhabitants of the pueblo ruins ]