jack salmon
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Etymology
Noun
jack salmon (plural jack salmon or jack salmons)
- Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
- A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
- (colloquial) Sander canadensis.
- (Midwestern US, colloquial) Sander vitreus.
- 1967, Robert E. McLaughlin, The Heartland: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →OCLC, page 16:
- A visitor may well be baffled by “pony keg” and “jack salmon,” but Cincinnatians know that the first is a store where beer may be purchased and the second is deep-fried pike.
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