Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The food eaten by fishes.
- noun Food consisting of fish.
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Examples
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I took so many assignments I was ridiculously overqualified for — printing slogans on lanyards, stuffing fish-food pellets, slapping labels on cosmetics, assembling frozen dinners, not to mention a bazillion office jobs of all sorts.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: When To Return To Your Day Job 2009
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Ku-ula was his mainstay for fish-food and was consequently held in high esteem by Kamohoalii, and they lived without disagreement of any kind between them for many years.
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Mercury News: Environmentalists seek better protection for anchovies, sardines and other forage fish at the bottom of the fish-food chain.
NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2011
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Like most people I'd been convinced for weeks she was fish-food as soon as we got Ben's flashback.
my new plaid pants 2009
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Logan, a biologist in Idaho Springs, Colo., turns waste from breweries into a fish-food ingredient.
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Logan, a biologist in Idaho Springs, Colo., turns waste from breweries into a fish-food ingredient.
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Indian, Thai, burger, fish-food… yum; I’m definitely not having light meals to help with my jetlag at Portland baggage claim, a surprising number of very young mothers or very well-preserved mothers
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Indian, Thai, burger, fish-food… yum; I’m definitely not having light meals to help with my jetlag
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Indian, Thai, burger, fish-food… yum; I’m definitely not having light meals to help with my jetlag
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I know they say every man has his loco point, "Mr. Bunner added reflectively," but that doesn't mean genuine, sure-enough craziness; it just means some personal eccentricity in a man ... like hating cats ... or my own weakness of not being able to touch any kind of fish-food. "
The Woman in Black 1915
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