Tippah River is a

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in the

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Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...

. It is a tributary of the

Tallahatchie River The Tallahatchie River is a river in Mississippi which flows from Tippah County, through Tallahatchie County, to Leflore County, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River, which ultimately meets the Mississippi River at Vic ...

. ''Tippah'' is a name derived from the

Choctaw language The Choctaw language (Choctaw: ), spoken by the Choctaw, an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, US, is a member of the Muskogean languages, Muskogean language family. Chickasaw language, Chickasaw is a separate but closely related l ...

purported to mean "to eat one another", i.e.

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. Variant names are "Tippah Creek" and Tippah River Canal".

References

Rivers of Mississippi Rivers of Benton County, Mississippi Rivers of Marshall County, Mississippi Bodies of water of Tippah County, Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{Mississippi-river-stub