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"Lost in America" vehicle
Answer for the clue ""Lost in America" vehicle ", 9 letters:
winnebago
Alternative clues for the word winnebago
Word definitions for winnebago in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Siouan people of eastern Wisconsin," 1766, from Potawatomi winepyekoha , literally "person of dirty water," in reference to the muddy or fish-clogged waters of the Fox River below Lake Winnebago. As a type of motor vehicle, attested from 1966.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winnebagoes \Win`ne*ba"goes\, n.; sing. Winnebago . (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
Usage examples of winnebago.
A weary Winnebago Tom ran down the soiled list for a final time and committed it to the flame of his lighter.
He told Jimmy about the Andros run and explained the deal he had cut with Winnebago Tom Cruz.
There, parked at the end of a man-made jetty, sat two Winnebago campers and a beer truck.
He was reaching for the tire iron when Winnebago Tom clipped him along the side of his head with the butt of the pistol.
Smartass Prospect, you tell your fucking patsy father that nobody fucks with Winnebago Tom.
With the Winnebago as his traveling office, the docks at sunset were a good place to transact business, pick up snippets of information, and troll for fresh meat to be savored later on the pull-out double bed beneath the ceiling mirror.
The few passersby on the still night stared incuriously as Albury drove along the seawall until the Winnebago was about seventy-five feet from the end.
Somewhere on the bottom of the roiling channel was the nicest Winnebago in town.
He had become interested in the Winnebago group through a picture of them in the newspaper, and thought it would be a fine thing for Gladys.
Just before they sang the Goodnight Song, Nyoda drew Gladys into the group and officially invited her to become a Winnebago at the next Council Fire.
Both gentlemen expressed their unbounded admiration for the physical prowess of the Winnebago girls and remarked on their splendid ability to pull together.
Now in the middle of the hem in the front of your dress you may put the Winnebago symbol--the sign of your tribe.
It was not a passenger, however, that was left on the Winnebago dock, but a wooden box from the express company.
Great interest was aroused when the girls said they were from Camp Winnebago, for the fame of some of their doings had gone about the village, and their singing on the lake at night had been heard by more people than they knew.
Lake Camp sends greetings to Camp Winnebago and begs permission to send a delegation to call and pay its respects.