Tomahawk Definition
(basketball): A dunk in which the person dunking the ball does so with his arm behind his head.
The BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings, which can be launched from a ship or submarine.
- hatchet
- indian club
- poggamoggan
- stone ax
- ax
- war ax
Origin of Tomahawk
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From an Algonquian (most likely Powhatan) word. Compare Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax"), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax").
From Wiktionary
Virginia Algonquian tamahaac
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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