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Jack salmon

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
  2. 2
    pike-like freshwater perches wordnet
  3. 3
    A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
  4. 4
    Sander canadensis. colloquial
  5. 5
    Sander vitreus. Midwestern-US, colloquial

    "A visitor may well be baffled by “pony keg” and “jack salmon,” but Cincinnatians know that the first is a store where beer may be purchased and the second is deep-fried pike."

Etymology

From jack + salmon.

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