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fish food

American  
[fish food] / ˈfɪʃ ˈfud /

noun

  1. food eaten by or prepared for fish, especially pet fish.

  2. a corpse in a body of water.


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If anyone has heard of them, it's probably as a type of fish food available to buy online.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2025

Inside the passenger cabin, a row of large portholes runs down each side, with small buttons next to them that allow passengers to shoot fish food “torpedoes” at the sea life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2023

Fishers found they could throw pebbles – resembling the farm’s fish food – in the water and round them up, Julius said.

From Seattle Times Nov. 14, 2022

Putting this spent plastic product to use as fish food — that was some D.I.Y. upcycling.

From New York Times Jun. 16, 2022

He reached, automatically, for the container of fish food beside the tank.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

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