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fly-fish

fly-fish verb: to fish using a fly (fishing lure) as bait.

Verb

fly-fish (third-person singular simple present fly-fishes, present participle fly-fishing, simple past and past participle fly-fished)

  1. To fish using a fly (fishing lure) as bait.

Forms of fly-fish

third-person singular presentfly-fishes
present participlefly-fishing
past participlefly-fished
pastfly-fished

Questions about fly-fish

What does fly-fish mean?
Fly-fish means to fish using a fly (fishing lure) as bait.
What part of speech is fly-fish?
Fly-fish is a verb.
What is the past tense of fly-fish?
The past tense of fly-fish is fly-fished.

Words near fly-fish in the dictionary

  1. fly-by-wire
  2. fly-bys
  3. fly-catcher
  4. fly-catchers
  5. fly-eyed
  6. fly-fish
  7. fly-fisher
  8. fly-fishing
  9. fly-grazing
  10. fly-half
  11. fly-halves

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