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sharknado

sharknado noun: a tornado containing sharks.

Noun

sharknado (plural sharknados or sharknadoes)

  1. (humorous, usually) A tornado containing sharks.
    • But just as the big three TV networks amassed a giant audience in the 20th century, then lost it to cable and the internet, the appeal of bringing the entire world into one big group chat might be over. This is the way a phenomenon ends — not with a sharknado but a whimper.2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times

Forms of sharknado

pluralsharknados
pluralsharknadoes

Origin of sharknado

From shark + -nado.

Questions about sharknado

What does sharknado mean?
Sharknado means a tornado containing sharks.
What part of speech is sharknado?
Sharknado is a noun.
What is the plural of sharknado?
The plural of sharknado is sharknados.

Words near sharknado in the dictionary

  1. sharkling
  2. sharklings
  3. sharkmeat
  4. sharkminnow
  5. sharkminnows
  6. sharknado
  7. Sharkovskii's theorem
  8. sharks
  9. sharks and minnows
  10. sharks up
  11. sharksfin

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