catfish

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If you watch the video, she says the size of the catfish is most likely due to them having no predators.

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Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.

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The clearest senses and uses of catfish gathered in one view.

noun

Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.

noun

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

noun

(Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for catfish.

noun

Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.

noun

The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.

noun

(Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.

noun

(Internet) Such a false profile.

Example sentences

If you watch the video, she says the size of the catfish is most likely due to them having no predators.

Some do it because they have self esteem and body issues and don't mean any harm to the person they catfish.

From what I've seen of fish farming locally (catfish) and in the Philippines (bangus), the feed is corn and grain based.

A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.

Then they pump it out into the catfish tanks, and algae eat the shrimp shit.

I remember my dad buying smoked catfish slices about 5-7 inches across, those definitely came from pretty damn big specimens.

;) Catfish runs about the same here as chicken, but tilapia can be had for super cheap.

I lived in Uzbekistan from the time I was born (1976) till about 1990 and six foot catfish was really big but not uncommon.

I think probably the success of the show can be helped mostly on the high profile catfish of star college football player Mante Te'o.

I wonder if this will end up like most salmon, trout, and catfish these days - fatty, tasteless, corn-fed garbage.

Pig and chicken feet, turkey necks, beef tails, intestines, carp and catfish.

Rumored giant catfish, though, sure, why not?

Quote examples

But then that same audience learned both the phrase "catfish" and the hard truth that he had been duped because that girlfriend didn't exist.[0] It was national news for awhile and broke thanks to research from Deadspin.

(Po Bronson actually writes about a catfish farmer in his book "What Should I Do With My Life?", I believe.) That's an example of being yourself and still leaving plenty of room to be socially adept.

I can only speak for the people portrayed on Catfish: The TV Show They all have various somewhat complicated reasons for "catfishing." These are people who 1)agree to meet/give up their true selves 2)agree to appear on TV Some people do it for revenge.