Ko·ko·pel·li (k??k?-p?l??)n.1. A Hopi kachina having a hunchback and an enlarged phallus and associated with fertility.2. A figure of a flute player, often depicted as a hunchback and originally appearing in Southwestern rock art and pottery.[Hopi kookopölö, hunchbacked Hopi kachina, humpbacked species of robber fly (later applied by non-Hopi anthropologists to images of flute players common in Southwestern rock art) : kooko-, of unknown meaning (perhaps akin to Zuni kokko, kachina) + pölö, lump, hump.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.