by 1993, American English slang, representing an African-American vernacular pronunciation of whore.

also AAA, abbreviation of American Automobile Association, attested 1902, American English, the year the organization was founded.

also fire-water, "alcoholic liquor," 1826, American English, supposedly from speech of American Indians, from fire (n.) + water (n.1).

1850, American English, from American Spanish charqui "jerked meat," from Quechua (Inca) ch'arki "dried flesh."

"American born of nisei parents; third-generation Japanese-American," 1945, from Japanese san "three, third" + sei "generation."

Central American mammal, 1796, from French (1670s), from an Algonquian word for the wolverine; the North American word was erroneously transferred by Buffon to the tropical animal.

1899, coined by Maj. John Wesley Powell at the Bureau of American Ethnology, where he was director, from American + Indian.

"cup of weak or diluted coffee," especially espresso, short for café Americano (by 1964), from Spanish, literally "American coffee" (see American), a Central American term from the 1950s, a disparaging reference to the type of coffee believed to be favored in the United States.

"large, South American bird of prey," c. 1600, from American Spanish, from Quechua (Inca) cuntur, the native name for the bird.

type of large-leaved North American tree with winged seeds, c. 1740, from an American Indian language of the Carolinas, perhaps Creek (Muskogean) /katalpa/, literally "head-wing."