crappie
Americannoun
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crappies,
plural
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crappie
plural
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
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
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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