jack salmon
nounEtymology From jack + salmon.
1
Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
2
A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
3
Colloquial Sander canadensis.
4
Midwestern US, Colloquial Sander vitreus.
- 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.1967, Robert E. McLaughlin, The Heartland: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →OCLC, page 16: