bottom fishern.
/ˈbɒtəm ˌfɪʃə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəm ˌfɪʃər/ 1. A person who fishes for species which live or feed near the bottom of a body of water.
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1806 C. Bowlker (title) The art of angling, or complete fly & bottom-fisher.
1903 A. Lang Valet's Trag. iii. 55 London was a pleasanter place..when ‘the best stands on Hackney River’ were competed for eagerly by bottom fishers.
1989 E. B. Burnley Surf Fishing Atlantic Coast 96 Species such as weakfish..and king whiting will take up residence in these lakes, providing steady action for bottom fishers.
2014 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Sept. 31 Bottom fishers are also being rewarded with a mix of breaksea cod, queen snapper, dhufish and red snapper.
2. Finance (originally U.S.). A person who invests in stocks, etc., believed to be undervalued. Cf. bottom fishing n. 2.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > type of
profit taker1552
bull1714
bear1718
fund-monger1734
lame duck1806
stag1845
taker-in1852
cornerer1869
wrecker1876
corner-man1881
market-rigger1881
boursocrat1882
offeror1882
ribbon clerk1882
inflater1884
manipulator1888
underwriter1889
kangaroo1896
piker1898
share pusher1898
specialist1900
tailer1900
writer1906
placee1953
corporate raider1955
tippee1961
raider1972
bottom fisher1974
white knight1978
greenmailer1984
1974 Pensions & Investm. 1 Jan. 26/1 Internally, Mr. Kennedy has a staff of more than a dozen portfolio managers, research directors and analysts, and these, he says, are primarily ‘bottom fishers.’
1977 Forbes (Nexis) 1 July 110 For you bottom-fishers, Jerrico (17), down from its 1976 high of 44 because of weather-related concerns, looks like it could show $2.60 for the fiscal year just ended.
2005 Barron's 28 Mar. 38/1 Bottom-fishers have been eyeing General Motors' depressed shares.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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