scup

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A porgy (Stenotomus chrysops) of the northern Atlantic coastal waters, important commercially as a food fish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A swing: a term derived from the Dutch settlers.
2. To swing; have a swing.
3. n. A sparoid fish, the scuppaug or porgy, Stenotomus argyrops, attaining a length of a foot, and a valued foodfish, found from Cape Cod to Florida. The front teeth form narrow incisors, and the molars are in two rows. The body is compressed, with high back; the head is deep, with small mouth; the color is brownish, somewhat silvery below, everywhere with bright reflections, but without distinct markings in the adult, though the soft parts of the vertical fins are somewhat mottled; the young are faintly barred and with dusky axils. This fish is a near relative of the sheepshead, and of the pinfish or sailor'schoice (Lagodon rhomboides). It has had many technical names, as Sparus or Pagrus or Diplodus argyrops, and Sargus ambassis. A southern scup is sometimes specified as S. aculeatus.

Wiktionary

1. n. A fish, Stenotomus chrysops; the porgy.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Local, U.S. A swing.
2. n. (Zoöl.) A marine sparoid food fish (Stenotomus chrysops, or S. argyrops), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
2. n. flesh of fish found in colder waters of northern Atlantic coast of the United States
3. n. lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
4. n. found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish