Definition of "chinooks" [chinooks]

• Plural form of chinook. (noun)

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• "The kings called chinooks outside Alaska were thick, but streamlined with tails like shovels and the general heft of a pine log."
• "Then the "chinooks" came with their warm winds that changed the snow-laden landscape into a quagmire of mud, water, and open stretches of road which raised all kinds of havoc with the metal cleats."
• "The newlabour gang have been told for years about the dire shortage, old sea kings now almost worn out, a few heavy lift chinooks spending more hours on the ground than in the air, where are the new mega expensive merlins?"