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• n  a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)

• Fargo asked, trying on the designer's gray parka with speakers and wiring in the hood and an iPod-size pocket.
• The first waves began arriving on Saturday, black-jacketed Rockers by the hundreds, parka-clad Mods by the thousands.
• In an effort to remind attendees that Sundance really isn't about collecting the right size parka, festival organizers gave away 25,000 buttons that said "Focus on Film.

• windbreaker
• windcheater
• anorak

News & Articles

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• Zoom on Resort: Acne, Prabal Gurung, and More
  Acne's resort 2014 collection mixed night and day elements in an odd way that worked. There were electric-blue suede flatforms with plenty of utilitarian straps paired with fluid satin gowns knotted haphazardly at the knee; silk gazar bustiers worn over a cotton-organdy parka and matching trousers. The most striking part ... More »
  June 10, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Robin Givhan in FOXNews
  Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood,Givhan wrote in Friday's Post, also mocking Cheney's knit ski cap embroidered with the words "Staff 2001" and his...
• Calvin Trillin in Canton Repository (subscription)
  I got up earlier than Alice,Trillin says, "so I would give them breakfast and then Abigail would take Sarah by the hood of her parka and I would watch them out the window."
• Matt Stairs in Chicago Tribune
  I'm a jokester, and I'll do some weird stuff,Stairs said. "It's 110-degree weather, and I'll come out in a parka with a hat and gloves on. I like to have fun. I guess I'm a clown. Whatever works out."