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phish

phish verb: to engage in phishing.

Verb

phish (third-person singular simple present phishes, present participle phishing, simple past and past participle phished)

  1. To engage in phishing.

Noun

phish (plural phishes)

  1. A phishing attack.

Forms of phish

Verb
third-person singular presentphishes
present participlephishing
past participlephished
pastphished
Noun
pluralphishes

Past tense of phish: phished

Origin of phish

Back-formation from phishing.

Questions about phish

What does phish mean?
Phish means to engage in phishing.
What part of speech is phish?
Phish can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of phish?
The past tense of phish is phished.

Words near phish in the dictionary

  1. phirmaunds
  2. phirni
  3. phirotope
  4. phirotopes
  5. phis
  6. phish
  7. phished
  8. phisher
  9. phisherman
  10. phishermen
  11. phishers

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