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Definition of Cheechakos
1. cheechako [n] - See also: cheechako
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheechakos
Literary usage of Cheechakos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conquest of Mount McKinley: The Story of Three Expeditions Through the by Belmore BROWNE (1913)
"Furthermore, in all the wilderness exploration, the handling of boats, rafts,
horses, dogs, and securing meat, they would have been "cheechakos," and an ..."
2. Through the Yukon and Alaska by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1909)
"... of 1898 were ' mushers,' not mountaineers: they were gold-hunters from the
cities, not prospectors; they were 'cheechakos* of the greenest kind. ..."
3. ...The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-lore and Woodcraft by Daniel Carter Beard (1920)
"All my readers must remember that BY THEIR CAMP-FIBE THEY WILL BE KNOWN and "sized
up" as the real thing or as chumps, duffers, tenderfeet and cheechakos, ..."
4. The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance by Robert William Service (1910)
"What of the eager army, the host of the cheechakos? For hundreds of miles were
lake and river white with their grotesque boats. ..."
5. The Klondike Clan: A Tale of the Great Stampede by Samuel Hall Young (1916)
"This crowd of cheechakos will be crazy to find some place to leave their goods
while they go wild- catting over the country staking worthless creeks. ..."
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