fishnoun
uk/fɪʃ/us/fɪʃ/plural fish or fishesA1 [ C or U ] an animal that lives in water, is covered with scales, and breathes by taking water in through its mouth, or the flesh of these animals eaten as food:
a strange person
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- Trout are fresh water fish.
- Garnish the fish with some fresh parsley and a squeeze of lemon.
- They were happy because they had caught a lot of fish that day.
- They always serve fish and chips on friday.
- The river is populated mainly by smaller species of fish.
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Sea fish
- anchovy
- barracuda
- bream
- cod
- coley
- flying fish
- groper
- haddock
- hake
- halibut
- pollack
- ray
- remora
- salmon
- salmon trout
- sturgeon
- swordfish
- trout
- tuna
- turbot
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Idiom(s)
fishverb
uk/fɪʃ/us/fɪʃ/fish verb (SEARCH)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to try to find something, using your fingers to look for it:
[ I usually + adv/prep ] to try to get something, without asking directly:
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- shake
- strip search
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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fish verb (ANIMAL)
B1 [ I or T ] to catch fish from a river, sea, lake, etc., or to try to do this:
If an area of water has been fished out, all or most of the fish in it have been caught.
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Hunting & fishing
- angler
- angling
- bait
- beater
- big game
- gun dog
- hare coursing
- harpoon
- hunt
- hunt saboteur
- pointer
- reel
- shooter
- sinker
- smoke
- smoke sb/sth out
- snare
- spoor
- trap
- troll
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