either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
Word origin
C19: from Canadian French crapet
crappie in American English
(ˈkræpi)
US
nounWord forms: pluralˈcrappies or ˈcrappie
any of a genus (Pomoxis) of small North American sunfishes found in sluggish streams and ponds throughout E and central U.S.; specif., the black crappie or white crappie
Examples of 'crappie' in a sentence
crappie
I said " crappie ," and Jay lost it-he almost slid off his chair.