Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two mackerel sharks of the genus Isurus, especially the fast-moving shortfin mako (I. oxyrinchus), a popular game fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tiger-shark (which see). The teeth of the make are used for ornaments by the Maoris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zool.) Same as
mako shark .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
mako shark
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'm disqualified, I know, but that's a porbeagle ... mako is a good second guess, but the dorsal isn't short enough.
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The only thing that's dumber than free-gaffing a mako is calling the local TV station so the world can see what a bunch of neanderthals you are.
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 29 weeks 6 days ago beer can in mako stomach mantis shrimp in striper stomach
I caught a channel catfish, about 12lbs, that had a partially digested muskrat in its stomach. 2009
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Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 29 weeks 6 days ago beer can in mako stomach mantis shrimp in striper stomach
I caught a channel catfish, about 12lbs, that had a partially digested muskrat in its stomach. 2009
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The only thing that's dumber than free-gaffing a mako is calling the local TV station so the world can see what a bunch of neanderthals you are.
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I'm disqualified, I know, but that's a porbeagle ... mako is a good second guess, but the dorsal isn't short enough.
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The majority of sharks caught for their fins are the blue sharks, threshers and hammerheads of more exotic waters, but North Atlantic species, including the porbeagle, angel, shortfin mako and spiny dogfish – sold in British fish and chip shops as rock salmon – are also under threat.
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Enter template_engine (mako/genshi/jinja2/etc: Template language) [ 'mako']: mako
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I killed my last shark, a mako, in 1997, and no sooner had I tied it to the boat's cleat than I knew it would be my last.
Carl Safina: Shark Attacked, Media Bites Rosie O'Donnell Carl Safina 2012
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Snake Charmers are a favorite of serious mako shark chasing charter captains in the Northeast.
Fun Guns 2009
chained_bear commented on the word mako
"A mako once bit Murph so badly that he had to be helicoptered back to shore. (Touching even a severed mako head can trigger it to bite.) The rule for mako is that they're not considered safe until they're on ice in the hold."
—Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 56
August 19, 2009
reesetee commented on the word mako
That'll teach him to touch a severed mako head.
August 20, 2009