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jack salmon en · NOUN

Etymology

From jack + salmon.

Meanings

1. Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
2. A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
3. (colloquial) Sander canadensis.
4. (Midwestern-US, colloquial) Sander vitreus.
   • 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. 1967, Robert E. McLaughlin, The Heartland: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →OCLC, page 16:

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Synonyms

Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) · sauger (Sander canadensis) · walleye (Sander vitreus) · North Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) · Pacific whiting (Merluccius productus)