mackerel

IPA: mˈækɝʌɫ

Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
(obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.

Examples of "mackerel" in Sentences

Saba, otherwise known as mackerel, is a staple for me.
This latter method of splitting is known as mackerel splitting.
Gavin and Grandad were fishing for mackerel from the harbor wall when the seal popped its head out of the water.
The sky was what is called a mackerel sky—rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset.
The sky was what is called a mackerel sky – rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset.
The sky was what is called a mackerel sky — rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset.
The sky was what is called a mackerel sky -- rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset.
Another problem with mackerel is that once a prisoner's sentence is up, there's little to do with it -- the fish can't be redeemed for cash, and has little value on the outside.
Scilly Isles, I saw an even more remarkable duel between a porbeagle -- as the Cornish people call the mackerel-shark -- and a pipit, in which, strange to relate, the bird came off victorious.