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Angler

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Noun

1. angler

a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

2. angler, troller

a fisherman who uses a hook and line

3. allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lophius americanus, lotte, monkfish

fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

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Angler

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noun
1. 
a person who fishes with a rod and line
2. informal
a person who schemes or uses devious methods to secure an advantage
3. Also called: anglerfish
any spiny-finned fish of the order Pediculati (or Lophiiformes). They live at the bottom of the sea and typically have a long spiny movable dorsal fin with which they lure their prey

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Angler

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noun
1. 
a fisherman who uses hook and line
2. 
a person who schemes and uses tricks to get something
3. 
any of an order (Lophiiformes) of bony fishes that feed on other fish, attracting them by means of a movable lure that grows from the head
: often ˈanglerˌfish (ˈæŋglərˌfɪʃ ; aŋˈglərfishˌ) Word forms: plural ˈanglerˌfish or ˈanglerˌfishes see fish

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Angler

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n.
1. One who fishes with a hook.
2. A scheming person.
3. An anglerfish.

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