scad

scad ¹

 (skăd)

n. pl. scad or scads

Any of several carangid fishes chiefly of the genus Decapterus, especially D. punctatus of the western Atlantic.

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[Origin unknown.]

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scad ²

 (skăd)

n. Informal

often scads A large number or amount: Scads of people are in the hall.

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[Origin unknown.]

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scad

(skæd)

n, pl scad or scads

(Animals) any of various carangid fishes of the genus Trachurus, esp the horse mackerel

[C17: of uncertain origin; compare Swedish skädde flounder]

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scad

(skæd)

n. Usu., scads.

a great number or quantity.

[1855–60, Amer.; of obscure orig.; compare British dial. scal(d) a great quantity]

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae Carangidae, family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, saurel, horse mackerel, Spanish mackerel - a California food fish saurel, Trachurus trachurus, horse mackerel - large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, goggle-eye, Selar crumenophthalmus - of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait Decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad - small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil cigarfish, Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad - small fusiform fish of western Atlantic

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scad

noun

Informal. An indeterminately great amount or number.Often used in plural:

jillion, million (often used in plural), multiplicity, ream, trillion.

Informal: bushel, gob (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), load (often used in plural), lot, oodles, passel, peck, slew, wad, zillion.

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