1
- a young pilchard or other young or small herring-like fish沙丁鱼, 鳁。
2
sardines
treated as sing. Brit. a children's game based on hide-and-seek, in which one child hides and the other children, as they find the hider, join him or her in the hiding place until just one child remains〈英〉挤沙丁捉迷藏游戏（一人躲藏, 寻找者找到躲藏者后逐个挤入躲藏处, 直到剩下一人为止）。
短语
packed like sardines
- crowded very close together, as sardines are in tins拥挤得像罐头里的沙丁鱼, 挤得满满的, 拥挤不堪。
词源
late Middle English: from French, or from Latin sardina, from sarda, from Greek, probably from Sardō 'Sardinia'.