1. [informal] A swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
   "The boxer had a nasty shiner after the fight";
   - black eye, mouse
    
2. Something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
   "The fireflies were like little shiners in the dark forest"
    
3. Any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
   "We used shiners as bait for bass fishing"
    
4. Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
   "Fishermen caught several shiners in their morning catch";
   - common mackerel, Scomber scombrus

Derived forms: shiners

Type of: article, bruise, contusion, cyprinid, cyprinid fish, mackerel, object, physical object

Part of: genus Scomber, Scomber

Encyclopedia: Shiner, TX