shipping fever is a noun meaning "a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)". It carries one recorded sense.
a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shipping fever come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.