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loose fish

loose fish noun: someone of irregular or dissolute habits.

Noun

loose fish (plural loose fish)

  1. (colloquial) Someone of irregular or dissolute habits.
    • Mr. Wade began to repent of his too easy taking of matters in the beginning. Not that he had a suspicion of Rex, but that he had remembered that Dick was always a loose fish.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2
  2. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Forms of loose fish

pluralloose fish

Questions about loose fish

What does loose fish mean?
Loose fish means someone of irregular or dissolute habits.
What part of speech is loose fish?
Loose fish is a noun.
What is the plural of loose fish?
The plural of loose fish is loose fish.

Words near loose fish in the dictionary

  1. loose edges
  2. loose end
  3. loose ends
  4. loose eye
  5. loose eyed
  6. loose fish
  7. loose head
  8. loose heads
  9. loose lip
  10. loose lips
  11. loose lips sink ships

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