Usually means: Warm, dry wind, Rocky Mountains.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chinook, chinook: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Chinook, Chinook, chinook: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chinook: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Chinook, chinook: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chinook, chinook: Wordnik
  6. Chinook, chinook: Wiktionary
  7. Chinook: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Chinook: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Chinook: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. chinook: Dictionary.com
  11. Chinook: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Chinook (C-Train), Chinook (disambiguation), Chinook (dog), Chinook (draughts player), Chinook (newspaper), Chinook: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Chinook: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. chinook: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. chinook: Rhymezone
  16. Chinook: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. chinook: Free Dictionary
  18. chinook: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Chinook: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. Chinook: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chinook: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chinook: CCI Computer
  2. Chinook (fish), chinook: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chinook (fish), chinook: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chinook: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. chinook: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chinooking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Chinook)

noun:  (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.
noun:  The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
noun:  A Native American language of the Penutian family of Oregon and Washington.
noun:  Chinook Jargon, a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest composed primarily of words from Chinook proper, English, and French, with some borrowings from other languages.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States.
noun:  A member of a Native American people whose traditional tribal grounds were along the lower and middle Columbia River.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of chinook [(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.]

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