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Chinook Jargon
Chi·nook Jar·gon


noun 
Definition:
 
pidgin of N American Pacific coast: a pidgin language, once used for trading along the western coast of North America, made up of words borrowed from Chinook, Nootka, various Salishan languages, French, and English
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