"shiner" in the noun sense

1. shiner, black eye, mouse

a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

2. shiner

something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)

3. common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus

important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

4. shiner

any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis

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