shore dinner

noun

1. a meal consisting chiefly of seafood.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shore dinner¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

I used to have heart trouble so bad I'd breathe like a fish at a shore dinner—and look at me now!

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Teddy would rather spend money on Bess than eat a shore dinner.

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From the Indian we got the original idea of the shore dinner and the barbecue, the planked shad and the hoecake.

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