starfishes

Noun

starfish (plural starfishes or starfish)

1. Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
   • Near-synonym: Asteroidea

   Synonyms:

   sea star, asteroid

2. (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
   • But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly...1755, Erik Pontoppidan, translated by Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway
3. (slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.

   Synonyms:

   cold fish, dead fish

4. (slang, vulgar) The anus.
   • Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.2021, Sophie Palmer, Hot Wife: Collection of Explicit Erotic Short Stories

   Synonyms:

   chocolate starfish

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