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Kamloops (trout) [< Kamloops(< Salishan "meeting place of waters"), B.C.] 
n. a large game fish, Salmo gairdneri kamloops, native to the upper Columbia and Fraser Rivers; a landlocked steelhead.
See also: silver trout (def. 1) steelhead
- 1905 In the Illecilewaet and other streams may be found the trout of the Upper Columbia--the Kamloops trout.
- 1938 (1950) A few, which are rather like rainbows, are the Kamloops.
- 1964 The big Kamloops stood on his tail and skittered all over the bay for 55 minutes before Jack was able to get him into the canoe.
- 1905 In the Illecilewaet and other streams may be found the trout of the Upper Columbia--the Kamloops trout.