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FISH
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FISH is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.
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noun
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countableA typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
- Salmon is a fish.
- The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
- Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
- We have many fish in our aquarium.
- countableuncountableAny vertebrate, including tetrapods.
- archaicbroadlycountableuncountableAny animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
- archaicbroadlycountableuncountableNow used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
- NewfoundlandcountableuncountableCod; codfish.
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uncountableThe flesh of the fish used as food.
- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
- Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
- countableuncountableAn aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- uncountableA 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.
- countableslangAn easy victim for swindling.
- countableslangA bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- countableA makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- countableuncountableA purchase used to fish the anchor.
- countableslangA torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- countableuncountableThe thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- derogatorypositiveslangsometimesuncountableA (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- countableslanguncountableA new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- JamaicacountablederogatoryoffensiveuncountableA male homosexual; a gay man.
- countableuncountableA drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- countablerareuncountableA spaceship.
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A period of time spent fishing.
- The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
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An instance of seeking something.
- Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
- obsoleteA counter, used in various games.
verb
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intransitivetransitiveTo hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
- She went to the river to fish for trout.
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transitiveTo search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
- transitiveTo use as bait when fishing.
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intransitiveTo (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Why are you fishing through my things?
- He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
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intransitiveTo talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
- The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
- intransitiveOf a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- transitiveTo repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- transitiveTo hoist the flukes of.
- transitiveTo draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.