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shiner
[ shahy-ner ]
noun
- Slang. black eye ( def 1 ).
- any of various small American freshwater fishes having glistening scales, especially a minnow.
- any of various silvery, marine fishes, as the menhaden or butterfish.
- a defect in silk or synthetic filament or fabric, produced either in the process of winding or as a result of shuttle friction and appearing on fabric as a shiny streak.
shiner
/ ˈʃaɪnə /
noun
- something that shines, such as a polishing device
- any of numerous small North American freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Notropis and related genera, such as N. cornutus ( common shiner ) and Notemigonus crysoleucas ( golden shiner )
- a popular name for the mackerel
- informal.a black eye
- old-fashioned.a vagrant or tramp
Word History and Origins
Origin of shiner1
Example Sentences
The shiner that developed meant I had to spend the first five minutes of every video call explaining what had happened.
They could only film one side of John Francis Daley’s face that day, given the shiner he got from “catching a flyball with his eye by accident,” as his TV mom, Becky Ann Baker, now puts it.
Veterans of old and more recent wars crowded around the bar downing shots of Regal Crown Black, chased by Shiner Bock.
Hard to imagine him slammin' down Shiner Bocks and listenin' to Willie Nelson.
His untidy hair was rumpled, as if someone had been hanging onto it while in the process of giving him the shiner.
This he cut open, and trimmed down with his knife until it resembled a large shiner.
The name Helen is philologically allied to Helios the Sun, and is generally interpreted to mean torch, shiner, or giver of light.
At station A-2 the Arkansas River shiner made up 14.6 per cent of all fish taken.
In the Arkansas River smaller relative numbers of this shiner were obtained.
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