Chinook

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Chi·nook | \ shə-ˈnu̇k

, -ˈnük

, chə- \

plural Chinook or Chinooks

Definition of Chinook

1 : a member of an American Indian people of the north shore of the Columbia River at its mouth

2 : a Chinookan language of the Chinook and other nearby peoples

3 or less commonly chinook

a : a warm moist southwest wind of the coast from Oregon northward

b : a warm dry wind that descends the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains

4 or less commonly chinook : chinook salmon

5 : any of a rare breed of large, muscular dogs that were developed in New Hampshire in the early 1900s as sled and working dogs and have a yellow, reddish-yellow, or yellowish-brown coat and calm temperament Among the dogs he [Arthur Treadwell Walden] used for breeding the Chinook were descendants of Admiral Peary's Greenland expedition huskies, along with mastiff-types.— John Nolan