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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, having dark vertical markings.
  2. n. A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) commonly found from the Great Lakes to Texas.
  3. n. A redfish (Semicossyphus pulcher) of the Gulf of California, caught commercially or as a game fish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fool; a silly person.
  2. n. A sparoid fish, Archosargus or Diplodus probatocephalus (formerly known as Sargus ovis), abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and highly esteemed as a food-fish. It is a stout- and very deep-bodied fish, with a steep frontal profile, of a grayish color with about eight vertical black bands, and the fins mostly dark. It attains a length of 30 inches, though usually found of a smaller size.
  3. n. A sciænoid fish of the fresh waters of the United States, Haplodinotus grunniens. Also called drum, croaker, and thunder-pumper.
  4. n. (or
  5. To fish for or catch sheepshead.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fish of the species Archosargus probatocephalus.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus probatocephalus syn. Diplodus probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

Etymologies

  1. sheep +‎ head (Wiktionary)

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  • hernesheir Also sheephead, referring to the card game. Dec 10, 2010

  • gangerh Tails. You lose. Sep 4, 2008

  • bilby Heads? Sep 4, 2008

  • lampbane There are no sheep in Sheepshead Bay. Sep 4, 2008

  • treeseed Sheepshead is a card game related to the Skat family of games, originating in Central Europe in the late 1700s under the German name Schafkopf. Although Schafkopf literally means "sheepshead", the term is actually derived from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on an overturned barrel (from kopfen, meaning playing cards, and Schaff, meaning a barrel).

    Sheepshead is played by two to eight players, where the variant with five players is the most common, by far. In the United States, Sheepshead is most commonly played in Wisconsin, which has a strong Germanic population.

    _Wikipedia Feb 6, 2008

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‘sheepshead’ has been looked up 1229 times, added to 6 lists, commented on 5 times, and has a Scrabble score of 19.