salmon

One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

grilled salmon

salmon paté

A meal or dish made from this fish.

A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.

snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Got any salmon?

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."