Definitions for Shiner

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Shiner shin·er

Spelling: [shahy-ner]

IPA: /ˈʃaɪ nər/

Shiner is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in Shiner (ehinrs).

Definitions for Shiner

noun

1. a person or thing that shines.
2. Slang. black eye (def 1).
3. any of various small American freshwater fishes having glistening scales, especially a minnow.
4. any of various silvery, marine fishes, as the menhaden or butterfish.
5. a defect in silk or synthetic filament or fabric, produced either in the process of winding or as a result of shuttle friction and appearing on fabric as a shiny streak.

Origin of Shiner

1350-1400; 1900-05 for def 2; Middle English; see shine¹, -er¹

Examples for Shiner

Finding no answer to the question, he wheeled shiner and headed for home.

Hard to imagine him slammin' down shiner Bocks and listenin' to Willie Nelson.

"But some flies are tied with the tail next to the snell," ventured shiner.

With a bait like a ballyhoo or a shiner I could get ten bites to one with mullet.

I hope you didnt lose your joke book, Billy, remarked shiner.

But the shiner was equal to "his tricks and his manners," and soon had him in the landing-net.

Go sit by shiner and give him water till I spoil a few of these voters.

Jim, how would you like to have this shiner for your first wedding-fee?

If you'd looked closer, you might have just spotted the traces of the shiner Inger gave her.

Veterans of old and more recent wars crowded around the bar downing shots of Regal Crown Black, chased by shiner Bock.