any of numerous small North American freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Notropis and related genera, such as N. cornutus (common shiner) and Notemigonus crysoleucas (golden shiner)
3. a popular name for the mackerel
4. informal
a black eye
5. New Zealand old-fashioned, informal
a vagrant or tramp
shiner in American English
(ˈʃaɪnər)
noun
1.
a person or thing that shines
2. Word forms: pluralˈshiners or ˈshiner US
any of a number of freshwater minnows (esp. genus Notropis) with silvery scales
3. US, Slang
black eye (sense 2)
Examples of 'shiner' in a sentence
shiner
If his dad was as angry as you say he sounded, then he might've given Lenny a shiner.