chinook

Borrowed from Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (“the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia River”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈnʊk/, /t͡ʃɪˈnuːk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk, -uːk

chinook (plural chinooks)

1. (Canada, US, physics, meteorology) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.
2. The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

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chinook (feminine chinooke, masculine plural chinooks, feminine plural chinookes)

1. Chinook

chinook m (uncountable)

1. Chinook (language)