Anorak

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  • noun. A heavy jacket with a hood; a parka.
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  • noun. A heavy weatherproof jacket with an attached hood; a parka or windcheater.
  • noun. A geek or nerd, possibly originally either a train spotter or a fan of off-shore pirate radio.
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  • noun. a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
  • Word Usage
    "SWEENEY: Patrick, the word anorak comes to mind and that comes from my childhood, but it was where people would have a fixation on a particular thing, it might be radio presenters or people in news or something like that, and they would constantly communicate with each other."
    Form
    anorakish  
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    jacket  
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