Etymology

Indiana Jones

Today it means: An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations. Full definition →

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The story

After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981, named after its creator George Lucas’s dog Indiana.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.