mackerel
IPA: mˈækɝʌɫ
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "mackerel" in Sentences
- The icon used for the festival is that of a Mackerel.
- Saba, otherwise known as mackerel, is a staple for me.
- The sea was rich with oysters, tunny fish and mackerel.
- The fish caught from the pier consist mostly of mackerel.
- They are commonly known as mackerel scads, and round scads.
- Pacific jack mackerel is canned in the same manner as salmon.
- This latter method of splitting is known as mackerel splitting.
- The suborder includes the barracuda, tuna, mackerel and swordfish.
- Mackerel are fish common to the coasts of both Cornwall and Brittany.
- They feed on tuna and mackerel, some of the fastest fish in the Ocean.
- The fish caught from the pier consist mostly of mackerel and flounder.
- Occasionally he would also fish mackerel and cod in Norway during the summer.
- 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.