tragn.
/traɡ/, U.S. /træɡ/, Australian English /træɡ/ Australian.
The teraglin or Geelbeck croaker, Atractoscion aequidens, a coastal sciaenid fish of warm southern seas.
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1951 T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 73 Teraglin (Trag, Atractoscion atelodus).
1973 King's Cross Whisper (Sydney) No. 145. 16/4 A nice haul of snapper, mowies and even a dozen or so trag.
1984 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 5 Aug. 122/6 Tailor and teraglin could also put in an appearance... One area which usually produces ‘trags’ is the Coogee ground.
2013 Bayside Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 7 May 47 An evening fish has turned up good numbers of trag on the Gold Coast's shallow reefs.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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