Usually means: Oily, fast-swimming, marine fish.
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  1. mackerel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mackerel: Merriam-Webster
  3. mackerel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mackerel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mackerel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mackerel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mackerel, mackerel: Wordnik
  8. mackerel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mackerel: Wiktionary
  10. mackerel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mackerel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mackerel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mackerel, mackerel: Dictionary.com
  14. mackerel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mackerel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mackerel (disambiguation), Mackerel (food), Mackerel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mackerel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mackerel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mackerel: Rhymezone
  20. mackerel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mackerel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mackerel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mackerel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mackerel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. mackerel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. mackerel: Encyclopedia

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  2. mackerel: Medical dictionary

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  1. mackerel: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mackerel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mackerel: Urban Dictionary

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  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
noun:  typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
noun:  A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
noun:  Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
noun:  (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.

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