catfish
Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
Other meanings
The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
A kind of
- freshwater fish
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This definition is adapted from “catfish” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.