papoose
- n an American Indian infant
- All four of us struggled to "papoose" the boy strapping him down to a casket-shaped plywood board with big thick Velcro flaps so firmly that he would be safely immobilized .
- They were there to get back at the Tigers for calling the Indians Crybabies, Boohoo Indians and Papeese (plural for papoose).
- There's a papoose for ev'ry ma-moose, So there must be someone for me.