Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Either of two mackerel sharks of the genus Isurus, characterized by a large heavy body and a nearly symmetrical tail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The tiger-shark (which see). The teeth of the make are used for ornaments by the Maoris.
Wiktionary
- n. mako shark
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zool.) Same as mako shark.
WordNet 3.0
- n. powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific
Etymologies
- Maori. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 29 weeks 6 days ago beer can in mako stomach mantis shrimp in striper stomach”
I caught a channel catfish, about 12lbs, that had a partially digested muskrat in its stomach.
“I'm disqualified, I know, but that's a porbeagle ... mako is a good second guess, but the dorsal isn't short enough.”
“The only thing that's dumber than free-gaffing a mako is calling the local TV station so the world can see what a bunch of neanderthals you are.”
“The majority of sharks caught for their fins are the blue sharks, threshers and hammerheads of more exotic waters, but North Atlantic species, including the porbeagle, angel, shortfin mako and spiny dogfish – sold in British fish and chip shops as rock salmon – are also under threat.”
“Enter template_engine (mako/genshi/jinja2/etc: Template language) [ 'mako']: mako”
“I killed my last shark, a mako, in 1997, and no sooner had I tied it to the boat's cleat than I knew it would be my last.”
The Huffington Post: Carl Safina: Shark Attacked, Media Bites Rosie O'Donnell
“Snake Charmers are a favorite of serious mako shark chasing charter captains in the Northeast.”
“The video below is a great example of just how destructive and nasty a mako brought aboard can be, even when it's got ropes around it and gaffs stuck in at every angle.”
“Just over a week ago, Texan Bill Walters endured a six-hour fight in the Gulf of Mexico with the mako shark above.”
“One shows the crew cowering in the cockpit as a mako flops, snaps, and destroys everything on deck.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mako’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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sharks, rays and skates
about 330 species of sharks
about 450 species of rays and
skatesangel shark, angelfish, basking shark, blue pointer blue..., bronze whaler, bull-head shark, carpet shark, devil ray, devilfish, dog shark, dogfish, elasmobranch and 119 more...
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Maori words playable in scrabble
Maori, weve had a influx since
2007ahuru+, ahuruhuru+, aka+, akatea+, akeake+, akiraho+, amokura+, araara+, ariki+, aroha+, aruhe+, ataata+ and 297 more...
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PECH - marine species
Alaska plaice, African cuttlefish, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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Animals With Nifty Names
hamster, gerbil, ferret, horse, skink, newt, shark, octopus, weasel, panda, giraffe, hyena and 129 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Sharks
hammerhead, mako, whitetip, porbeagle, dogfish, thresher, vaalhaai, tope, shovelhead, shovelnose, blacktip, bonnethead and 23 more...
Tweets
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reesetee That'll teach him to touch a severed mako head. Aug 19, 2009
chained_bear "A mako once bit Murph so badly that he had to be helicoptered back to shore. (Touching even a severed mako head can trigger it to bite.) The rule for mako is that they're not considered safe until they're on ice in the hold."
—Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 56 Aug 19, 2009