Skookumchuck
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Skookumchuck is a word in the Chinook Jargon that is in common use in British Columbia English and occurs in Pacific Northwest English. Skookum means "strong" or "powerful", and "chuck" means water, so skookumchuck means "rapids" or "whitewater" (literally, "strong water"). It can mean any rapids, but in coastal usage refers to the powerful tidal rapids at the mouths of most of the major coastal inlets.
Skookumchuck could also mean
- Skookumchuck, British Columbia
- Skookumchuck Hot Springs, British Columbia
- Skookumchuck Narrows
- Skookumchuck Rapids Provincial Park
- Skookumchuck River
- Skookumchuck Cup
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