- a member of a formerly numerous North American Indian people originally inhabiting the northern shore of the mouth of the Columbia River and the adjacent territory.
- either of the two languages of the Chinook Indians.
- a warm, dry wind that blows at intervals down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
- chinook salmon.
- a U.S. Army cargo helicopter in service since 1962 and capable of ferrying 12 tons of supplies and troops.
- a warm dry southwesterly wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
- a warm moist wind blowing onto the Washington and Oregon coasts from the sea
- a Native American people of the Pacific coast near the Columbia River
- the language of this people, probably forming a separate branch of the Penutian phylum
