From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishanorakan‧o‧rak /ˈænəræk/ noun [countable] 1 DCC especially British English a short coat with a hood that keeps out the wind and rain2 British English informal a boring person who is interested in the unimportant details of a particular subject and does not know how to behave properly in social situations SYN nerd
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anorak• It's not as if grey anoraks are cheap.• He wore a navy fisherman's jersey and gumboots, and a heavy anorak, shiny and running with wet.• Shivering, she pulled up her anorak zip and turned to the left.• He was hot in his anorak.• We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains.• Converse dressed, pulled on his plastic anorak and went down to the street.Origin anorak (1900-2000) Greenland Inuit anoraq 