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Tlapoca.

Headword: 
Tlapoca.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male), "He Smokes"

Orthographic Variants: 
Thlapoca
Attestations from sources in English: 

nican itoca thlapoca = whose local name is Tlapoca (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 116–117.

Tlapoca = a name, attested as male, meaning "He Smokes"
Magnus Pharao Hansen, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos," a blog post, 2014, http://nahuatlstudies.blogspot.com/2014/11/nahuatl-names-nahuatl-names-i...