noun
Meaning 1
A thin jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: windcheater
Antonyms: none provided
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noun
A thin jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: windcheater
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: parka, windcheater, anorak
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: jacket
Narrower terms: cagoule, ski parka, ski jacket
History
From wind + breaker, from a trademark of the John Rissman company.
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.