Pap·a·go / ˈpapəˌgō; ˈpäp-/ • n. (pl. same or -gos) 1. a member of an American Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Sonora.2. a dialect of the Uto-Aztecan Pima-Papago language.• adj. of or relating to this people or their language.

Papago Piman-speaking tribe of Native North Americans who inhabited the Gila and Santa Cruz river valleys of s Arizona, and n Sonora, Mexico. Today c.11,000 Papago people live s of Tucson, Arizona.