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buffalo fish

British  

noun

  1. any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus : family Catostomidae (suckers)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Under a tent, Irma Spears’s brother fried up 240 pounds of catfish and buffalo fish.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

It’s buffalo fish, which I grew up cooking on Friday nights with my grandmother outside of Memphis.

From Washington Post Mar. 18, 2021

The day before, he and others had hauled 1,200 pounds of carp and some buffalo fish out of the Mississippi River.

From Washington Post May 10, 2018

Growing up in Flint, he said, his grandfather would take him fishing in the Flint River, where they’d catch buffalo fish, which he’d always toss back.

From The New Yorker Jan. 15, 2017

I asked, “How did you know that? You had buffalo fish before?”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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