Tuskegee
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English
Etymology
From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tuskegee
- A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on.
- A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States.
- A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States.
- The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.
- 2001, Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, University of California Press, page 35:
- Responding with some heat to Angell's criticisms—they described comparisons to Tuskegee as "inflammatory and wrong"—the writers explained that cultural differences were at the heart of the problem.
- Tuskegee National Forest.
- Tuskegee University.
Derived terms
Noun
Tuskegee (plural Tuskegees)
- An unethical experiment on humans.
- (rare, historical) One of the Tuskegee Airmen.