Meaning & use
scad
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Any of several small, silvery ocean fish of the family Carangidae, related to jacks and mackerel.
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Fishermen hauled in a net full of scad off the coast at dawn.
Scad is often used as bait for larger game fish.
A note on using this word
The plural form scads also means a large, informal quantity of something, as in scads of money, a separate, more common usage.
Another way to use it
2. noun
(usually plural, scads) An informally large number or amount.
They had scads of leftover candy after Halloween.
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