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fish food

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[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

Then its researchers dropped in cotton balls soaked in various ingredients, ranging from mashed-up worms to compounds from known fish food, and watched what the fish went for.

From Seattle Times May 15, 2022

There’s even some of the lethal metal still in the ground, most of it the size of fish food but sharp enough to cut fingers.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2022

I shake fish food into Finway’s bowl, and we eat together, Finway gulping and me munching crackers.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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