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The Native American sidekick of the Lone Ranger. · A member of the Tonto Apaches.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA sidekick. · A Native American who accepts a subservient position to a white person.
From Spanish tonto (“fool, idiot”), the Spanish name for the tribe, a calque of Western Apache kounʼnde (“wild rough people”). The fictional character (described as Comanche or Potawatomi) either from Potawatomi [Term?] or named after Tonto Basin, Arizona.
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