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Word: fish (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of or relating to fish.
  • of a drag queen or transsexual Resembling a biological woman.

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initialism:

  • genetics fluorescent in-situ hybridization; a technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.

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Noun:

  • derogatory|slang A woman.
  • uncountable A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards.
  • collectively fish
  • possibly archaic Any vertebrate that lives in water and cannot live outside it.
  • countable A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
  • countable An instance of seeking something.
  • countable A period of time spent fishing.
  • nautical A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  • nautical Torpedo
  • slang An easy victim for swindling.
  • uncountable The flesh of the fish used as food.

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Proper noun:

  • dot=, from the common noun fish.

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Verb:

  • cricket Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  • followed by "around" To attempt to obtain information by talking to people.
  • intransitive To attempt to find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
  • intransitive To try to catch fish, whether successfully or not.
  • nautical To repair a spar or mast using a brace often called a fish (see NOUN above).
  • figurative|followed by "for" To attempt to gain.
  • transitive To try to catch fish, or to find something else, in (a body of water).

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