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fish tail

fish tail is the alternative spelling of fishtail.

Meaning of fishtail

Noun

fishtail (plural fishtails)

  1. The tail of a fish, or an object resembling this.
  2. The skidding of the back of a vehicle from side to side.
  3. A kind of chisel with a flared blade.

See all 6 meanings of fishtail

Forms of fish tail

pluralfish tails

Questions about fish tail

What is fish tail the alternative spelling of?
Fish tail is the alternative spelling of fishtail.

Words near fish tail in the dictionary

  1. fish story
  2. fish strainer
  3. fish strainers
  4. fish supper
  5. fish suppers
  6. fish tail
  7. fish tails
  8. fish tale
  9. fish tales
  10. fish tank
  11. fish tanks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fish tail (page history and authors); fishtail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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