Definition & Meaning | English word TEEPEE

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Definitions of TEEPEE

1. A cone-shaped tent traditionally used by many native peoples of the Great Plains of North America.
2. A conical formation of small flammable sticks leaning on each other, in roughly the shape of an Indian teepee, built over smaller tinder such as cotton or leaves.
3. Alternative form of TP ("to cover with toilet paper").
4. Alternative form of TP ("toilet paper").

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Examples of Using TEEPEE in a Sentence

• Instead of building coffins or digging graves, the villagers wrapped the bodies of the deceased in cloths; they put poles in the cloths making the shape of a teepee.
• The school's DECA chapter also runs two school businesses: "The TeePee", a school store where students and staff can buy snacks during lunch periods, and "Apache Design", a T-shirt printing business where students record and produce orders for school functions and for organizations in the community and surrounding area.
• Although there was no fighting and the actual intentions of the Dakota are not clear, their presence in the area forced the Chippewa to vacate Teepee Hill.
• The Battle of Cut Knife, fought on May 2, 1885, occurred when a flying column of North-West Mounted Police, Canadian militia, and Canadian regulars attacked a Cree and Assiniboine teepee settlement near Battleford in the North-West Territories' District of Saskatchewan.
• During the period between 1971 and 1974, Clarke led number of Teepee touring workshops in a variety of venues and institutions including the Kitchen, the Museum of Modern art ('Open Circuits'), Antioch College, Baltimore, Wesleyan College, Bucknell University, Film Study Center, Hampshire College and the University of Buffalo.
• 1991: Saamis Teepee erected in Medicine Hat; originally built for the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988, the structure is the world's largest tepee.
• Visitors can make mud pies at the mud kitchen, peek into a passionflower teepee, climb on balancing logs, pick chocolate peppermint in the herb spiral, care for vegetables in the mandala garden, smell blooming wildflowers, meditate in a labyrinth, observe birds that visit a solar-powered fountain, hide in a willow den, and explore much more.
• It featured an arrow, a ninety-pound meatloaf, a plexiglass smoking chamber, a 32’x8’ wood paneling painting, a video of Muistardeaux Collective chasing cows and smoking parliament cigarettes in a makeshift teepee, a 1972 Chevrolet C20 van (the “MSU - Mobile Smoking Unit”), a two-way surveillance camera system, and an extensive air ductwork and forced air motor system.
• Other facilities offered at the site includes hireable conference rooms, camping grounds, and a new Teepee village named ‘Buffalo Creek’, which allows visitors to build and maintain campfires.
• With Karma leaving to go to FaZe Clan and Dedo coming to Evil Geniuses, the team now consisted of ACHES, TeePee, Crimsix, and Dedo.
• Teepee (also spelled tepee or tipi) structures are sedimentary structures interpreted to represent formation in peritidal environments.
• The Search for an American Indian Identity: Modern Pan-Indian Movements (1971) discusses pan-Indianism after the Ghost Dance (from roughly the 1900s to the 1970s), covering organizations including the Society of American Indians and the Teepee Order of America.
• Tricia and Cathie built a teepee in Miramichi and worked in a lobster restaurant in Shediac, whilst Monique and Ladi worked in a pizza restaurant in Saint John.

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