sardine

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Have you ever used a key for a sardine can?

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small fatty fish usually canned

Meaning at a glance

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noun

small fatty fish usually canned

noun

any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

noun

a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sardine.

noun

small fatty fish usually canned

noun

any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

noun

a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

noun

small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

Example sentences

Have you ever used a key for a sardine can?

The commodity traders bid them up and the price of a can of sardines soared.

In Iceland you can get it in small sardine type cans and spread the liver on crackers.

:P> "Don't forget that, during rush hour, you stand in a sardine can with a hundred other people.

This would be less an issue if airlines were less greedy, trying to cram everyone like a sardine.

Which technically amortizes to ~$150k/sardine, but I don't think this is meaningful!

For context this refers to the train bombings, which opened up railway bogies like sardine cans, the attacks of 26/11, the bombings in Jhaveri Bazaar, random riots.... the list goes on.

I'd take six hours packed like a sardine with over-recycled airline food farts over 20 hours with better air pressure/humidity and bigger windows any day, cost being equal.

Travel without having to deal with the airlines and without being locked in a crampy seat the size of sardine can and without having to wait through endless and pointless lines of "security checks".

"There is the old story about the market craze in sardine trading when the sardines disappeared from their traditional waters in Monterey, California.

After paying hundreds of dollars for the privilege of getting treated like a criminal suspect and then packed into a can like a sardine, it's not unreasonable to keenly desire a little bit of comfort and distraction, is it?