a•pache
Pronunciation: (u-päsh', u-pash' Fr. a-pash'), [key]
— pl. a•paches
- a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.
A•pach•e
Pronunciation: (u-pach'ē), [key]
— pl. A•pach•es, A•pach•e.
- a member of an Athabaskan people of the southwestern U.S.
- any of the several Athabaskan languages of Arizona and the Rio Grande basin.
- a two-man U.S. Army helicopter designed to attack enemy armor with rockets or a 30mm gun and equipped for use in bad weather and in darkness.
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