sheepshead
noun
a deep-bodied, black-banded food fish, Archosargus probatocephalus, living along the Atlantic coast of the United States, chiefly around southwest Florida, and southward to Brazil.
sheepsheads
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pluralof sheepshead.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Within a few hours all Europe knew the details of the latest half-cocked attempt of an Austrian Nazi band to seize power, and disgusted German Nazis were again calling their southern brethren stupid sheepsheads.
From Time Magazine Archive
In August, 1768, he "hauled the Sein for sheepsheads" off Hollis Marsh in Westmoreland County.
From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie
But they were mostly memories of sheepsheads and flanneled bathers and 'tis not for these that the poet gazes into the emerald depths whence the pearly scum, like tears of mermaids—Ah!
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various
