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
keep one's hands off (someone or something)
to refrain from touching or handling someone or something
My aunt asked her nephew to keep his hands off her furniture.
