mackerel

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Synonyms: cackerel, cockerel, pickerel, maceral, mackerels, muckerer, macker, suckerel, mckeel, bockerel, mackel

Antonyms: cackerel, cockerel, pickerel, maceral, mackerels, muckerer, macker, suckerel, mckeel, bockerel, mackel

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Noun

1. Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled, Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
2. Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
3. A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
4. Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
5. A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.
   • a mackerel sky

Noun

1. A pimp; also, a bawd.

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