Usually means: Fish reflecting light, appear shiny.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word shiners:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. shiners: Merriam-Webster
  2. shiners: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shiners: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shiner's, Shiners, shiners: Wordnik
  5. shiners: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Shiners, shiners: Wiktionary
  7. shiners: Dictionary.com
  8. shiners: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shiners: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shiners: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shiner)

noun:  One who shines; a luminary.
noun:  One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
noun:  (colloquial) A black eye.
noun:  (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
noun:  (slang, dated) A bright piece of money, especially a sovereign.
noun:  Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
noun:  Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
noun:  A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
noun:  (slang) A moonshiner.
noun:  A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
noun:  (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
noun:  A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
noun:  A surname.
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