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

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  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. sardine: Encyclopedia

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  1. sardine: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SARDINE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine Sardina pilchardus (syn. Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine Sardinops sagax (syn. Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
noun:  (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
verb:  to fish for sardines
verb:  to pack or cram together tightly.
noun:  (obsolete) carnelian.
noun:  Dark-brown sard.
adjective:  Characteristic of a sardius.
noun:  A member of the Italian grassroots political movement organized to protest against the right-wing surge in the country and the political rhetoric of Matteo Salvini.

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