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catfish
(kætfɪʃ)
Word forms: plural catfish
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Catfish are a type of fish that have long thin spines around their mouths.
catfish in British English
(ˈkætˌfɪʃ)
nounWord forms: plural -fish or -fishes
1.
any of numerous mainly freshwater teleost fishes having whisker-like barbels around the mouth, esp the silurids of Europe and Asia and the horned pouts of North America
2. another name for wolffish
3. US informal
a person who creates a false identity on social media in order to lure someone into establishing a relationship
verb
4. (intransitive) informal
to create a false identity on social media in order to lure someone into establishinga relationship
catfish in American English
(ˈkætˌfɪʃ)
nounWord forms: plural ˈcatˌfish or ˈcatˌfishes
1. US
any of an order (Siluriformes) of bony fishes with barbels, somewhat like a cat's whiskers, about the mouth and usually with a sharp spine in the dorsal and pectoral fins
2. US
any of certain fishes of this group cooked as food
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