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- noun Plural form of
chinook .
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Examples
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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.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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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.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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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.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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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.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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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.
American Chronicle 2008
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Sunlight streamed into the water, lighting up 15 -, 20 -, and 30-pound chinooks.
Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska 2007
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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?
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September 18, 2009 at 3:38 am you are a bunch of chinooks
I always - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Sounds great, but will tese 6 'D' class chinooks be in adition to the 16 new choppers they are expecting?
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FLYFISHING King salmon (chinooks) require stout fly tackle — 9 - to 10-weight rods with sinking-tip lines, heavy leaders, and large, gaudy flies.
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