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windcheater
noun
A heavy weatherproof jacket
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Sadly not as memorable as that green windcheater with the arms cut off that he wore when he won the Claret Jug.
I am, however, instructed to wear a reflective windcheater with the word POLICE on the back, and by simple virtue of donning it, I am no longer an ordinary citizen.
The opening 11-minute episode, released last Friday, showed Partridge (still played by Coogan, still wearing a pastel windcheater) presenting his radio show on North Norfolk Digital and preparing to interview Anthea "the body" Turner.
A quick straw poll of breathless shoppers reveals bills of £65 (for two miniscule babygros), £40 (one windcheater) and £120 (three items for a four-year-old child).
I took off my beige McGregor windcheater, which I'd bought at an Oxfam shop in my hometown of Leeds specially for the trip.
The burgeoning afro he sports in the film has been pruned back; his 19th-century velvet threads are today replaced by a rugby shirt and windcheater.
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There's nothing to say the windcheater-wearing dad figure checking out a nightmarish sculpture with a "Pretty good!" nodding smile isn't, in fact, the world's biggest sludge fan.
There are woollen babygros in gender-neutral grey; colourful hi-tops transported straight from the Eighties (or maybe from Shoreditch, where they're still favoured by people who grew up under Thatcher); windcheaters in "off" shades of muddy pink and mustard yellow.
But in Salzburg two days earlier I saw seventy or eighty of them lined up on a street corner, very predominantly very young men, in international teen-age gear: baseball caps, luminous windcheaters, dark glasses.
There were armed FBI agents in blue windcheaters escorting the accused, and there was a jury whose names and addresses were not entered into the public record for fear of intimidation by mobster associates.
The reaction of staff and passengers at York station on Monday was more prosaic, with few changes yet visible to most except the Virgin stickers in the window, new staff badges and plastic Virgin windcheaters concealing old uniforms to keep out the snow showers.
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