any of several large game fishes of the genus Centropomus, esp C. undecimalis of tropical American marine and fresh waters: family Centropomidae (robalos)
2. Australian
the sea pike Australuzza novaehollandiae
Word origin
C17: from Dutch snoek pike
snook in British English2
(snuːk)
noun
cock a snook
Word origin
C19: of obscure origin
snook in American English1
(snʊk)
nounWord forms: pluralsnook or snooks
any of a family (Centropomidae) of percoid fishes of warm seas; esp., a large game and food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) of the tropical Atlantic
Word origin
Du snoek, pike < MDu snoec, akin to ON snokr, small shark & OE snacc, small vessel
snook in American English2
(snʊk)
noun
Chiefly British
the gesture of thumbing one's nose in defiance or derision
chiefly in cock a snook at to indicate contempt for by this gesture
Examples of 'snook' in a sentence
snook
To celebrate he decided to take Lawton on the skiff, go out past Crocodile Dragover to McCormick Creek, check some snook holes he knew.