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Snook

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Noun

1. snook

large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Snook

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nounWord forms: plural snook or snooks
1. 
any of several large game fishes of the genus Centropomus, esp C. undecimalis of tropical American marine and fresh waters: family Centropomidae (robalos)
2. Australian
the sea pike Australuzza novaehollandiae
noun
cock a snook

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Snook

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nounWord forms: plural snook or snooks
any of a family (Centropomidae) of percoid fishes of warm seas; esp., a large game and food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) of the tropical Atlantic
noun
Chiefly British
the gesture of thumbing one's nose in defiance or derision
chiefly in cock a snook at to indicate contempt for by this gesture

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Snook

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n. pl. snook or snooks
Any of several chiefly marine fishes of the family Centropomidae, especially Centropomus undecimalis, a food and game fish of warm Atlantic waters. Also called robalo, sergeant fish.
n.
A gesture of derision or defiance.

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