garfish
Americannoun
noun
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another name for garpike
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an elongated European marine teleost fish, Belone belone, with long toothed jaws: related to the flying fishes
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any of various marine or estuarine fish with a long needle-like lower jaw
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of garfish
1400–50; late Middle English; compare Old English gār spear
Example Sentences
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Tinned fish at the shop runs anywhere from $8 for Ati Manel garfish, a needle-like fish offred in olive oil from Portugal, to $36 for Conservas de Cambados ‘Sea Urchin Caviar’ from Spain’s Galician estuaries.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023
So when he hawked a bloody loogie, spit it into the swampy water and a garfish leaped up and ate it, I decided I had had enough.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2022
I was hooked on SecondLine Arts and Antiques the moment I spotted the necklace of raccoon vertebrae and beaded garfish scales.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2019
For flavor I’d heard it’s a star fish, So I thought I might try cooking garfish.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015
They looked like garfish or brilliant white light.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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