Blackfish

Quick meaning: Blackfish is a noun meaning Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

Meaning

Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

More Meanings

1. A pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales).
2. (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
3. (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
4. (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
5. (Internet slang, derogatory, of a non-black person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
6. (chiefly Scotland) An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.

Example Sentences

The creek was reputed to contain blackfish and Nathan […] arranged the extraordinary collection of American lures he had inherited from an uncle.

Long Island Sound, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and Narragansett Bay have many spots where blackfishing is productive year after year.

Judging from not only various records of campus life but also the numerous Instagram accounts of women appearing as "black" personalities — a phenomenon known as "blackfishing" — many do not know better.

Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.

Word Forms

• blackfishes
• blackfishing
• blackfished

Synonyms for blackfish

Depending on context, synonyms include tautog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tautog, cockfish, henfish, bluefish, spawner, grayling.

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