| 单词 | tin fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmastin fish f. Nautical slang. (In full tin fish.) A torpedo; also, a submarine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > torpedo torpedo1776 Whitehead1872 fish-torpedo1878 mouldy1916 fish1925 torp1929 pickle1931 kipper1953 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > submarine submarine1889 Holland1899 sub1915 pigboat1921 fish1925 guppy1948 killer submarine1955 snorter1962 nuclear1969 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 282 A tin fish, a torpedo. 1927 Daily Express 12 Oct. 3 ‘Hi!’ comes the hail, ‘we've got your tin fish!’ At the end of a rope is the shining, dripping, steel torpedo. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 293 Fish, torpedo;..submarine. 1931 W. G. Carr By Guess & by God 26 A try was made for a large one, but in the clear water the wake of the tin fish was too easily seen. 1943 Penguin New Writing 16 19 The air seemed full of falling bombs, and tinfish like carelessly dropped cigarettes splashed among the crowded ships. 1946 R. Harling Steep Atlantick Stream ii. 29 They do say the old QM's had a tin-fish under her tail. 1967 B. Knox Blacklight i. 16 The Navy didn't like losing a torpedo... Each ‘fish’ represented some £3,000 in cash. tin fish tin fish n. see fish n.1 1f. < as lemmas |
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