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adobe

Region
American West

Definition 
( 1 ) A house made of adobe, the Spanish for sun-dried clay or mud bricks; the term is first recorded in the Southwest in 1759. (2) Things of Mexican origin, as in the slang expression adobe dollar, a Mexican peso. (3) Military personnel. See also Doughboy.

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