Definitions for Machetes

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Machetes ma·chet·e

Spelling: [muh-shet-ee, -chet-ee]

IPA: /məˈʃɛt i, -ˈtʃɛt i/

Machetes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in Machetes (aceehmst).

Definitions for Machetes

noun

1. a large heavy knife used especially in Latin-American countries in cutting sugarcane and clearing underbrush and as a weapon.
2. a tarpon, Elops affinis, of the eastern Pacific Ocean, having an elongated, compressed body.

Origin of Machetes

1825-35; Spanish, equivalent to mach(o) mallet (cf. mace¹) + -ete noun suffix

Examples for Machetes

It looks worth a climb, and with axe and machete we make our way to it.

Armed with an ax or a machete, he stops incoming cars for questioning: Who are they?

Why, I could do the same if I chose, with the help of my machete.

Robert Rodriguez grindhouse gore-fest, machete Kills, slices and dices its way into theaters on Oct. 11.

I may get stuck with a machete yet, if I have to wait long out here.

Twitter users posted pictures of the scene and claimed a man had been seen with a machete.

These they would disable with a “machete” and then tow ashore.

The path for our group of six is being carved through tangles of vines and vegetation one machete hack at a time.

In one recent case, he said a man accused of kidnapping was hung from an iron bar and flogged with a machete.

Stuart expected to see the Cuban cut down with one stroke of the machete.