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BLOATER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloater mean?
• BLOATER (noun)
The noun BLOATER has 1 sense:
1. large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
Familiarity information: BLOATER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large fatty herring lightly salted and briefly smoked
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("bloater" is a kind of...):
herring (valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled)
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