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shiner
noun- a black eye US, 1904
- For a busted smeller, a couple of shiners, and a few creases in the knowledge-box, he made himself ten grand. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 21, 1946
- He was going to have a couple of very unlovely black eyes. I, who had seen him at a gross disadvantage, was to receive a figurative shiner. — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 133, 1954
- But his picture was in the paper. He had quite a “shiner.” — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 166, 1963
- I crawled out of it with a sprained thumb and a bloody lip, Pookie picked up a gorgeous shiner. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 166, 1965
- With your kind of face, the shiner does something, George! Makes it interesting[.] — The Sweeney, p. 44, 1976
- “That’s a pretty bad shiner,” Letch said. “Oliver hit you with his fist or what?” — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 43, 1996
- a torch US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 191, 1950
- a railway lantern US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 267, 1946
- in carnival usage, a diamond US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 238, 1981
- in gambling, an object that reflects, enabling the user to cheat by seeing cards as they are dealt US
- He had two “shiners” working on the table; one was a money clip that he could lay on the table directly in front of him. It was shiny, but only reflected directly back. — Stephen J.Cannell, King Con, p. 2, 1997
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