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Current fabric fine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chinook

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'current' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both types of natural phenomena as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'fabric fine' is the wordplay.
'fabric' becomes 'chino' (chino is a kind of fabric).
'fine' becomes 'ok' ('OK' can be a synonym of 'fine').
'chino'+'ok'='CHINOOK'

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(Other definitions for chinook that I've seen before include "hot wind" , "Warm dry wind of the Rockies - large Pacific salmon" , "O in hock (anag)" , "Arctic wind" , "warm one" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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