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countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons
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
A meal or dish made from this fish. examples
(plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon. examples
The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat. examples
(Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout) quotations
Got any salmon?
1992, “Ebeneezer Goode”, performed by The Shamen
not comparable
Having a pale pinkish-orange colour. quotations examples
Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155
third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned
(slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. quotations
Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."
2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR