jack salmon

plural jack salmons

1. Merluccius productus, a ray-finned fish found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.

   Synonyms: North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting

2. A Chinook salmon that returns to the fresh water one or two years early.
3. colloquialSander canadensis.

   Synonyms: sauger

4. Midwestern UScolloquialSander vitreus.

   A visitor may well be baffled by “pony keg” and “jack salmon,” but Cincinnatians know that the first is a store where beer may be purchased and the second is deep-fried pike.

   1967, Robert E. McLaughlin, The Heartland: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →OCLC, page 16

   Synonyms: walleye