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noun
Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A large number or quantity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, in-plural, informal
Synonyms: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload, buttload, cartload, crapflood, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, gob, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitflood, shitful, shitload, shitton, sight, slew, spadeloads, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: carangid fish, carangid
Narrower terms: horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus, Trachurus trachurus, bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, goggle-eye, Selar crumenophthalmus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad, Decapterus macarellus, round scad, cigarfish, quiaquia, Decapterus punctatus
History
Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
