crappie
Americannoun
noun
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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
It lacks oxygen, but does have crappie and other exotic fish species that prey on juvenile salmon.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
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
The Minnesota native has fond memories of yesteryear, when his family ventured out to drill holes in the ice and tug crappies up from underneath.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
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
“There was never anything really comparable. The only thing I’ve found that could really get the crappies like that was live minnows.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2014
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
The doomed fish of Flint Creek included large numbers of white crappies, a favorite among anglers.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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