climbingfish

[ klahy-ming-fish ]

/ ˈklaɪ mɪŋˌfɪʃ /

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noun, plural climb·ing·fish·es, (especially collectively) climb·ing·fish.

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Origin of climbingfish

climbing + fish

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How to use climbingfish in a sentence

When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
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“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
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In just a few hours on Tuesday, the dollar exchange rate collapsed from 64 to 80 rubles before climbing back to about 68.
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Kocurek documented the scene with notes and diagrams, and called the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer corroborated another account.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
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He said something laughingly to the head guide to the effect that climbing was good sport and a fine test for the nerves.
Uncanny Tales|Various
He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
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Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.
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But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
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British Dictionary definitions for climbingfish

climbing fish

climbing perch

noun

an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins

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