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windbreaker

/ˈwɪndbɹeɪkə(ɹ)/

windbreaker noun: a thin jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain.

windbreaker: a thin jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain
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Noun

windbreaker (plural windbreakers)

  1. A thin jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
    Synonyms:
    windcheater

Synonyms of windbreaker

Forms of windbreaker

pluralwindbreakers

Origin of windbreaker

From wind + breaker, from a trademark of the John Rissman company.

Words formed from windbreaker

Questions about windbreaker

What does windbreaker mean?
Windbreaker means a thin jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain.
What part of speech is windbreaker?
Windbreaker is a noun.
How do you pronounce windbreaker?
Windbreaker is pronounced /ˈwɪndbɹeɪkə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of windbreaker?
The plural of windbreaker is windbreakers.

Words near windbreaker in the dictionary

  1. windbox
  2. windboxes
  3. windbracing
  4. windbreak
  5. windbreaked
  6. windbreaker
  7. windbreakered
  8. windbreakers
  9. windbreaking
  10. windbreaks
  11. windburn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windbreaker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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