1
: one that shines
2
: a silvery fish
especially
: any of numerous small freshwater American cyprinid fishes (especially genus Notropis) compare golden shiner
Examples of shiner in a Sentence
He got a shiner during a fight at school.
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The majority of fish killed were minnows, shiners, chubs, and dace.
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 10 Feb. 2026
The Frabill Strato Seat, for example, allows just enough bucket access to snag a new shiner without removing the lid or even standing up.
—Harry Spampinato, Outside, 6 Feb. 2026
The skyway-level business ecosystem that emerged during the 1980s was one of lunch counters and copy shops and services like shoe-shiners, tailors, barbers, jewelers and others looking to be convenient errands, not weekend shopping destinations.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland, a shoe shiner, ended up in an elevator in Tulsa's Drexel Building with a White woman named Sarah Page, en route to the bathroom.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 10 Feb. 2026
The Frabill Strato Seat, for example, allows just enough bucket access to snag a new shiner without removing the lid or even standing up.
—Harry Spampinato, Outside, 6 Feb. 2026
The skyway-level business ecosystem that emerged during the 1980s was one of lunch counters and copy shops and services like shoe-shiners, tailors, barbers, jewelers and others looking to be convenient errands, not weekend shopping destinations.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
On May 30, 1921, a young Black man named Dick Rowland, a shoe shiner, ended up in an elevator in Tulsa's Drexel Building with a White woman named Sarah Page, en route to the bathroom.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
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“Shiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiner. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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