Word.ws English Dictionary

hoodfished

hoodfished is the simple past and past participle of hoodfish.

Meaning of hoodfish

Verb

hoodfish (third-person singular simple present hoodfishes, present participle hoodfishing, simple past and past participle hoodfished)

  1. (neologism) To pretend to be from a city that one is dating in.
    • The term gained popularity due to comedian Jared Freid, who highlighted the trend on TikTok. Many users have shared their experiences of being “hoodfished,” leading to unexpected distances between themselves and their online dates.2024 August 14, Gali Raz, “Hoodfishing: The Dating Trend of Lying About Living in Big Cities Like NYC”, in Jewish Business News, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2024

Questions about hoodfished

What is hoodfished the simple past and past participle of?
Hoodfished is the simple past and past participle of hoodfish.

Words near hoodfished in the dictionary

  1. hooden horse
  2. hooden horses
  3. hoodening
  4. hooder
  5. hoodfish
  6. hoodfished
  7. hoodfisher
  8. hoodfishers
  9. hoodfishes
  10. hoodfishing
  11. hoodful

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hoodfished (page history and authors); hoodfish (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hoodfished.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hoodfished. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.