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salmon

see also: Salmon

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Noun

salmon (plural salmon)

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.
Synonyms: lax
(plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
Synonyms: salmon pink
The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)
  Got any salmon?

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Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:
  Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

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Verb

salmon (salmons, present participle salmoning; past and past participle salmoned)

(slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
- 2014: "[https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/15/312455673/dont-salmon-dont-shoal-learning-the-lingo-of-safe-cycling|Don't 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."

Salmon

Proper noun

Surname
A city in Lemhi County, Idaho, situated on the Salmon River, after which it was probably named.

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