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Powwow   /pˈaʊwˌaʊ/   Listen
Powwow

noun
1.
(informal) a quick private conference.  Synonym: huddle.
2.
A council of or with Native Americans.






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... himself in a curious way. Throughout the late winter he had been the object of a concerted attack from Stanton and the Committee. The Committee had tacitly annexed Stanton. He conferred with them confidentially. At each important turn of events, he and they always got together in a secret powwow. As early as February twentieth, when Lincoln seemed to be breaking down with grief and anxiety, one of those secret conferences of the high conspirators ended in a determination to employ all their forces, direct and indirect, to bring about McClellan's retirement. They were all victims ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... forget them,' said Ah Moy, deeply contrite. 'Carried away by excitement, your abject slave considered but lightly what he then so foolishly said, and now so fervently regrets—and—and—let's drop this powwow, Quong Lee. I have no time for it! I tell you, man, I ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald

... the row, would look out an' smile, an' Dave would wave his big hat an' whoop from glee. If he starts toward 'em, aimin' for a powwow—which he does frequent, bein' a mighty amiable gent that a-way—they carols forth a squawk immediate an' shets the door. Dave goes on. Mebby he gives the door a kick or two, a-proclaimin' ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis



Words linked to "Powwow" :   colloquialism, conference, hash out, huddler, huddle, group discussion, talk over, discuss, council



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