Did you mayhaps mean Winchester?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. chiefly UK A heavy weatherproof jacket
WordNet 3.0
- n. a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
Etymologies
- wind + cheater (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The burgeoning afro he sports in the film has been pruned back; his 19th-century velvet threads are today replaced by a rugby shirt and windcheater.”
“One officer presumably an officer was wearing a windcheater with a British marines emblem on it.”
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“Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 26 weeks 1 day ago ieither go with a black windcheater or a white or yellow parachute jig.”
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“Helen took to the sidewalk herself, cursing her jeans and windcheater: they looked wrong in a place where every woman was in grey or brown tweeds and snappy little hats.”
“The red windcheater had been turned inside out to display its black side, and the MacLeod tartan pants were now showing their black lining.”
“He stopped at a nearby pub for a luncheon of cheese and beer, drove quickly back to Hope Cottage, changed into slacks and windcheater and set off eastwards along the cliff path.”
“More as a gesture than anything else I peeled off my windcheater and covered her.”
“Norman came along the corridor in his Ugg boots and his sleeveless windcheater.”
“In a desperate last throw of the dice, Baldrick is sent to the House of Lords and Blackadder is left with nothing but a catskin windcheater and a broken turnip.”
“What you have to remember is that I only ever saw my father in an open-necked shirt or a windcheater with a bobble hat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘windcheater’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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wyrd, wynd, wyn, wye, wuthering, wurzel, wurst, wurley, wuffler, wrox, wroth, wrongous and 282 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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sionnach's Words
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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