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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a species of Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, characterized by pinkish flesh.
See: pink salmon
Quotations
1935
After the close of the sockeye season, what are commonly known as humpback salmon were caught; these are the fish which are now canned under the technical name of 'pinks.'
1964
Pinks are taken commercially in purse-seines and gill-nets . . .