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El Paso

proper noun

  1. county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɛlˈpæsoʊ/ / /ɛlˈpɑːsoʊ/ / /ɛlˈpɑːsəʊ/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish el paso (“the pass”).

  1. A city, the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

    The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and later telling the police he had sought to kill Mexicans.

    Crowds at the bridge were subsiding Sunday evening, El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told CNN.