"Chinook" is a word in ENGLISH
A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks,
sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana
and the adjacent territory.
A jargon of words from various languages (the largest
proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood
by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United
States.
One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the
state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls.
Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
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