snook

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Closer to home, snook, an important tropical game fish, are now '' abundant '' farther north, in the waters off Merritt Island next to Cape Canaveral, where none was found in a 1965

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  1. noun Any of several chiefly marine percoid fishes of the family Centropomidae, especially Centropomus undecimalis, a food and game fish of warm Atlantic waters. Also called sergeant fish.
  2. noun A gesture of derision or defiance.
  3. idiom snook Chiefly British To thumb one's nose: "[The clock] is set wrong and hung crooked, as if to cock a snook at the importance of time” (Kevin Crossley-Holland).

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  • It was at that moment he had decided to stop taking the capsules, not only from a desire to see what would happen to him but also as a snook in the nose at Control. —  Pressure
  • There were no slot fish, but all of the snook were large fish measuring between 23 and 26 inches.
  • For snook, you fish on top for show, and smack on bottom for dough.
  • And that's precisely why a lot more leg-long snook are being caught on a regular basis nowadays.
  • "If you want a big pass snook, son, toss this big jig upcurrent, keep a tight line and let the tide roll it along the bottom," I recall the counter man saying as he flipped me a big, bushy yellow jig tied on a stout 5 / 0 hook.
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  1. Dutch snoek, pike, from Middle Dutch snoec.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also Scots snouk; from Middle English snoken, from Low German snoken, snöken = Swedish snoka, search, hunt for, lurk, dog (a person); cf. Icelandic snaka, Danish snage, rummage, snuff about, Swedish dial. snok, a snout, German schnökern, snuff.
  2. from Dutch snoek, a pike, jack.
 

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