chinook wind

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

chinook, snow eater

air current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"

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