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- noun Plural form of
halibut .
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Examples
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"We should have never, ever said, 'This conductor has a face like a halibut,' when the truth is, most conductors don't look anything at all like halibuts," Berkowitz says in the new radio advertisement, produced by the New York ad agency DeVito/Verdi.
Legal Sea Foods CEO Offers Sarcastic "Apology" To Offended Trolley Conductors - The Consumerist 2008
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Though viewers are falling faster than bludgeoned halibuts the show's ratings dropped by 40 percent to 3 million for Sunday's show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" still has more than enough viewers to stir up controversy.
Sarah Palin's 'snuff film' has animal rights group angry Melissa Bell 2010
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Seasonal distribution of black and arrow-toothed halibuts in the Bering Sea.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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Flounders, halibuts and soles, cods, hakes and haddocks crashed in 1991 and 1992.
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Some restaurants such as Le Bernardin and Aureole have had an easier time of it-that is to say, tidy sink drains and well-chilled halibuts are not part of the routine.
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But this prompted me to look up what halibuts look like.
And the answer is... 2005
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The Atlantic and Pacific halibuts both species of Hippoglossus can reach 10 ft/3 m and 650 lb/300 kg, and their firm, lean flesh is said to retain good quality for a week or more.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Right: Soles, halibuts, and other bottom-hugging flatfish swim on their side.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The Atlantic and Pacific halibuts both species of Hippoglossus can reach 10 ft/3 m and 650 lb/300 kg, and their firm, lean flesh is said to retain good quality for a week or more.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Right: Soles, halibuts, and other bottom-hugging flatfish swim on their side.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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