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shiner

noun as in black eye

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“We call them shiners,” she added, because they catch the eye.

Most of them were small species, such as minnows and shiners, but thousands of larger fish, including catfish and carp, also perished.

Anthony Davis has a shiner, and things just got heavier.

Gay had previously told several different stories about how she got the shiner, but had maintained until recently that she didn’t fully recall the events that led to her injury.

For a nickel, they had their new leather shoes shined and gave their old ones away to the shoe shiner.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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