Signification

• Noun

  1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
  2. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  3. Cod; codfish.
  4. The flesh of the fish used as food.
  5. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  6. (slang) A woman.
  7. (slang) An easy victim for swindling.
  8. (slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
  9. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  10. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  11. (slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
  12. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  13. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  14. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  15. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  16. The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
  17. (slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
  18. A male homosexual; a gay man.

• Verb