Tuskegee

Meanings

Proper Noun

• city, county seat Macon County (county) in southwestern Alabama (state) USA (country).
• A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe (county) County, Tennessee (state), USA (country).
• The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.
• Tuskegee National Forest.
• Tuskegee University.

Noun

• An unethical experiment on humans.
• One of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Origin

• From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke ("warriors"), the name of a Creek settlement.