chinook wind

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   a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

   Synonymschinooksnow eater

   Broaderwind

Questions about chinook wind

What does chinook wind mean?

chinook wind means "a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies".

What is another word for chinook wind?

Close synonyms include chinook, snow eater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinook wind a common word?

chinook wind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.