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Chinook(encyclopedia)
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Chinook (iou)



Chinook noun. N. Amer. Also (exc. sense 1) chinook. Pl. -s, same. E19.
[Salish tsinuk.]
A member of a N. American Indian people formerly living along the Columbia river; the language of this people. E19.
Lower Chinook, Upper Chinook: dialects of Chinook.
In full Chinook Jargon. A pidgin composed of elements from Chinook, Nootka, English, French, and other languages, used in the Pacific north-west of N. America. M19.
In full Chinook salmon. A salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, of the N. American Pacific coast. M19.
In full Chinook wind. A warm dry wind which blows east of the Rocky Mountains. Also, a warm wet southerly wind west of them. M19.