Definitions for shiners

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shiners shin·er

Spelling: [shahy-ner]

IPA: /ˈʃaɪ nər/

Shiners is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in shiners (ehinrss).

Definitions for shiners

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 shiners

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

Examples for shiners

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.