hurricane

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŭr′ĭ-kən, hŭr′ĭ-kān', IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɹɪkən/, /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/

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• (US) enPR: hŭr′ĭ-kān', hûr′ǐ-kān', IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɹɪkeɪn/, /ˈhɝɪkeɪn/

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Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from Taíno *hurakā.

• hero-cane (obsolete)

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. (meteorology) A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm.
3. (figurative) A great forceful onrush.
   • 2006 February 5, Leslie Feinberg, “Lesbian organizing and 'red feminism'”, in Workers World‎:

     A movement of women who wanted to win greater rights had to be able to move forward against a hurricane of lesbian-baiting from the political establishment of the Cold War capitalists.

4. (cocktails) A sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice, and either passion fruit syrup or fassionola.

• (type of a cyclone): cyclone, tropical storm, typhoon
• (meteorology): breeze, gale, storm

• Bislama: hariken

• anticyclone
• wind

Coined by Jeret Peterson.

hurricane (plural hurricanes)

1. (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip

• (freestyle aerial skiing): rudy, randy, daffy, full, double-full, triple-full, lay, back, slap-back, stretch

• raunchier

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁi.kan/

hurricane m (plural hurricanes)

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “hurricane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.