fish

1. (noun) a game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards
Synonyms: go fish
Related Words: card game, cards

2. (verb) catch fish or shellfish
Related Words: angle, brail, catch, crab, grab, net fish, prawn, scallop, scollop, seine, shark, shrimp, still-fish, take hold of, trawl

3. (verb) seek indirectly; "fish for compliments"
Synonyms: angle
Related Words: look for, search, seek

4. (noun) any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
Related Words: aquatic vertebrate, bony fish, cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian, food fish, game fish, mouthbreeder, rough fish

5. (noun) the flesh of fish used as food
Related Words: alewife, anchovy, eel, food product, foodstuff, gray mullet, haddock, hake, mullet, panfish, rock salmon, salmon, schrod, scrod, shad, smelt, stockfish, trout

6. (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, schlemiel, shlemiel, soft touch, sucker
Related Words: dupe, victim



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