fish

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Noun

fish (collectively (UK) fish or (US) and when referring to two or more kinds fishes or informally fishies)

1. (countable) A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

   Salmon is a fish.

   God created all the fishes of the world.

2. (collectively) Plural form of fish.

   We have many fish in our aquarium.

3. (possibly archaic) Any vertebrate that lives in water and cannot live outside it.
4. (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.

   The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.

5. (countable) A period of time spent fishing.

   The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.

6. (countable) An instance of seeking something.

   Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.

7. (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain pairs of cards.
8. (uncountable, derogatory, slang) A woman.
9. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
10. (nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
11. (nautical) Torpedo
    • 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), page 344:

      The second and third fish went to the middle of her long superstructure and under her forward deck.

Synonyms

• (card game): go fish

Derived terms

terms derived from fish (noun)

• big fish in a small pond
• bony fish
• cold fish
• dragonfish
• drink like a fish
• fish and chips
• fish bowl/fishbowl
• fishbrain
• fishcake
• fish finger
• fishful
• fishgig
• fish hook/fishhook
• fishkill
• fish ladder, fishway
• fishless
• fishlike
• fishmeal
• fishmonger

• fishmoth
• fish out of water
• fish paste/fishpaste
• fish pond/fishpond
• fishpound
• fishpox
• fishroom
• fish sauce
• fishskin
• fishskin disease
• fish slice
• fish supper
• fishtail
• fish tank/fishtank
• fish tape
• fishwife
• fishwoman
• fishworm
• fishy

• give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• goatfish
• goldfish
• have other fish to fry
• like shooting fish in a barrel
• jellyfish
• lumpfish
• overfish
• shellfish
• silverfish
• starfish
• neither fish nor fowl
• surgeonfish
• there's plenty more fish in the sea
• tuna fish

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