salmon /ˈsæmən/noun 6adjective 1verb 1forms 3 noun6 •a food fish with a brown back, silver sides and orange-pink flesh, which goes up rivers to lay eggs •A meal or dish made from this fish. •A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon. •canned fish, usually mackerel.Tinned mackerel is confusingly called ‘salmon’ in Sri Lanka. So this dish, in Sinhalese, is salmon hodi, or salmon in gravy. Now that I think on it, all tinned fish in Sri Lanka is called salmon. — 2018 •(slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)Got any salmon? — 1992 •The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat. adjective1 •Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet. — 1977 verb1 •(slang) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way." — 2014 formssalmoned · salmoning · salmons
