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rainbow runner
Word Origin
noun
1.
a streamlined, cigar-shaped swift jack,
Elagatis bipinnulata,
of warm seas, having a blue back, light-colored abdomen, and blue-bordered yellow stripes on its sides: a food and game fish.
Origin of
rainbow runner
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1935-1940
First recorded in
1935-40
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