Main Uses
- The Chinook people of Native Americans.
- Chinookan languages, in specific, Coastal Chinook and Upper Chinook
- Chinook Jargon, a hybrid of Chinookan, Nootka, Chehalis, French, English and other languages
- Chinook salmon
- Chinook wind, a wind observed in the Pacific Northwest and western interior of North America
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