n.
1.a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast
2.Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)
3.a city in southern California east of Long Beach
4.a city in western El Salvador
Idiom of the Day
sore loser
a person who gets angry when he or she loses
The man is a sore loser when he does not win a game of tennis.