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salmoned

salmoned is the simple past and past participle of salmon.

Meaning of salmon

Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

  1. (intransitive, slang) 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."

See all 11 meanings of salmon

Adjective

salmoned (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, rare) Having salmon poisoning disease.
    • A sportsman wishes to know if any one has a cure for salmoned dogs. He has a young dog which promises to be a good one, and as salmon are soon to be up the creeks he wants to be prepared. There is no specific cure for salmoned dogs.1894 November 18, The Portland Oregonian, “Raw Salmon Poisonous to Dogs”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
    • Having regard to the gentleman’s location (Oregon) and the season of the year it is probable that this dog had been eating a salmon that had died after spawning, which in a great number of instances seem to poison the dog, very often fatally. This is just a line in case this question of a “salmoned...1924 November, W. B. Boyce, “Salmoned Dogs”, in Outdoor Life, Denver, Colo.: Outdoor Life Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 409, column 2

Origin of salmoned

From salmon + -ed.

Questions about salmoned

What does salmoned mean?
Salmoned means having salmon poisoning disease.
What is salmoned the simple past and past participle of?
Salmoned is the simple past and past participle of salmon.
What part of speech is salmoned?
Salmoned is an adjective.

Words near salmoned in the dictionary

  1. salmonburger
  2. salmonburgers
  3. Salmonby
  4. Salmond
  5. Salmonds
  6. salmoned
  7. salmonella
  8. salmonellacidal
  9. salmonellae
  10. salmonellal
  11. salmonellas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: salmoned (page history and authors); salmon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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