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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Small children.
  • noun Young or small fish.
  • noun People or things regarded as unimportant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One or more small or immature fish.
  • noun informal One or more children.
  • noun idiomatic One or more persons or things of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who is small and insignificant
  • noun a young person of either sex

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