crappie
Americannoun
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crappies,
plural
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crappie
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of crappie
First recorded in 1855–60, from Canadian French crapet
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Fish species affected included largemouth bass, black crappie, bluegill, channel catfish, flathead catfish, and stocked species such as brown trout and rainbow trout.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
The controversy is strongest in professional bass and crappie fishing tournaments in which anglers vie for payouts of up to $100,00 for a first-place finish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
They also take part in activities like searching a nearby lake for crappie fish with their bare hands or going mudding with monster trucks.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
A buffalo head tops the fireplace, and at the center of the voluminous space, there’s an 8,700-gallon freshwater aquarium stocked with largemouth bass, bluegill, carp, gar, perch and crappie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
I took the man and his four-year-old son out in the canoe to work some crappie beds.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Recently six men sieving it for an hour with a 100-foot net came up with only two dozen four-inch creatures that elsewhere would be called crappies and catfish.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2018
The Department of Natural Resources says there are substantial numbers of eating-size walleyes in Green Lake, and good numbers of smallmouth and largemouth bass, northern pike, crappies and bluegills.
From Washington Times ● May 14, 2017
Along the Tidal Basin, Kenneth Levy Richardson was fishing for bluegills, crappies and bass.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2016
Topics: crunchies, crappies, San Francisco, tech industry, Silicon Valley, , , Protesters with signs gather at the entrance to Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, California November 7, 2013.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2014
This morning the crappies were best in close to shore and we caught seven or eight good ones by hanging right on the edge of the lily pads and casting out to the deeper side.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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