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Powwow v. i.

To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting. (Archaic, formerly Colloq. U. S.)

To hold a meeting to discuss an issue. (Informal)

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Etymology of 'Powwow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Powwow" Quotes from Famous Books

... while they puffed in silence on their pipes and drank tea when it was passed. That was their only show of interest in the festivities. Early on the morning of the second they all disappeared. But these were only a fragment of those that visit the Post in summer. It is then that they have their powwow. ...

— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... Lone, "they made the biggest blunder of their lives bringing me over here. No, I could see they wanted to get off alone and hold a powwow. They expected she'd be ...

— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... dwelt the famous Sachem Pasaconaway, who was seen by Gookin "at Pawtucket, when he was about one hundred and twenty years old." He was reputed a wise man and a powwow, and restrained his people from going to war with the English. They believed "that he could make water burn, rocks move, and trees dance, and metamorphose himself into a flaming man; that in winter he could raise a green ...

— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... of preparation for Peggy and Polly, for the outcome of that fireside powwow had been a decision in favor of Columbia Heights School for Polly also, for that winter at least, and when the fifteenth dawned bright and frosty, Mrs. Harold accompanied the girls to Washington, Captain Stewart's leave having meantime expired. But he had gone ...

— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson

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