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Shiner   /ʃˈaɪnər/   Listen
noun
Shiner  n.  That which shines. Specifically:
(a)
A luminary.
(b)
A bright piece of money. (Slang) "Has she the shiners, d' ye think?"
(c)
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.
(d)
(Zool.) The common Lepisma, or furniture bug.
Blunt-nosed shiner (Zool.), the silver moonfish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... the short but blessed spell of its existence—boys just back from an unhallowed frolic in town, and not yet sober enough to face their first sergeant and "the Old Man" at the orderly room. Oh, wonderful things were told of old Shiner and his ranch! In the eyes of some straitlaced commanders he had been little better than a receiver of stolen goods, a soldier Shylock who loaned moneys at usurious interest, a gambler who fleeced the trooper folk of their scanty pay, a dispenser of bad ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King

... sit on de winder An' kip jus' so quiet lak wan leetle mouse, She say de more finer moon never was shiner— Very fonny, for moon ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond



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