wickiup
- n a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States
- Vice President Curtis ("Egg Charley") is roundly ridiculed for his presidential ambitions, for his ornate office ("a cross between a tribal wickiup and a Sultan's seraglio .
- Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.