salmon
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Is salmon a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.Examples: "grilled salmon"; "salmon paté"; "salmon steak"Synonyms: lax, loxcountableuncountable
2. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.Synonyms: salmon pinkcountableuncountable
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)Examples: "Got any salmon?"Cockneycountableslanguncountable
4. (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.Examples: "Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon."; "With a thick gravy made up of onions, tomatoes, spices, and coconut milk this Sri Lankan salmon curry might breathe new life to those canned mackerels on your shelf."; "We manufacture canned markerel fish (salmon)"Sri-Lankacountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.Examples: "2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way.""intransitiveslang
Definition source: Wiktionary