单词 | powwow |
释义 | pow·wow I. 1. a. b. (1) (2) or powwow doctor < the richest powwow in York … is said to receive as much as $50 for a treatment — Nation > 2. a. b. (1) (2) < held a powwow with the head medicine man — F.B.Gipson > 3. a. < then came the powwow, with the Old Man the guest of honor — H.A.Chippendale > b. < brought together in a two-day powwow businessmen … scholars, journalists, and government officials — F.L.Allen > < official small fry … that modestly take up wall space at international powwows — Janet Flanner > especially < indicated here at a … Democratic powwow that any party presidential campaign will lean heavily on the administration foreign policy record — Christian Science Monitor > c. < in Rome the year before … had a fine powwow with the Pope — Bruce Marshall > especially < the … group, which held frequent little powwows, often gained time for further deliberations by bidding in smaller jumps — S.G.Thompson > II. intransitive verb 1. 2. < invited them to stack their arms in the yard, and come inside the shack and powwow — W.A.Fraser > transitive verb < had one of his eyes powwowed > |
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