fish
/fɪʃ/
noun
Meaning
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
"Salmon is a fish."
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
The flesh of the fish used as food.
"The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
A woman.
An easy victim for swindling.
A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
A purchase used to fish the anchor.
A torpedo.
A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
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