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n. someone new to Alaska or the Yukon. Originally a reference to the gold rush newcomers.
Usage examples of "cheechako".
He considered leaping back into his truck and wondered if that would cement his status as cheechako asshole.
She could only hope someone had told the cheechako what to bring as emergency gear.
Well, there was more than one way to run a pain-in-the-ass cheechako out of town.
So I promised him, and he paid the price in good cheechako coin (Which the same I blowed in that very night down in the Tenderloin).
The supercilious cheechako might designate them high, But one acquires a taste for them and likes them by-and-by.
A person is a cheechako until they've lived here from freeze-up to thaw.
People who live here know how to take care of themselves, and cheechakos who make it through a winter learn—or leave.
But Liam said, "True enough, but they'll only be slowin' us down if they walk, cheechakos that they are.
After sending Liam and Seamus on to the other culling places, Sinead and the extra curlies turned back to where she'd last seen the cheechakos.