a trick-taking card game originating in Germany and belonging to the Skat family of games
2. another name for sheepshead
sheephead in American English
(ˈʃipˌhed)
nounWord forms: pluralesp collectively -head or esp referring to two or more kinds or species -heads
a large California food fish, Semicossyphus pulcher, of the wrasse family
Also called: fathead, redfish
Word origin
[1535–45; so called from the resemblance of its teeth to those of a sheep]This word is first recorded in the period 1535–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: alcohol, basilica, credit, intercept, symmetry