blow|fish

blow|fish
blow|fish «BLOH FIHSH», noun, plural -fish|es or (collectively) -fish.
1. a puffer or other fish that can inflate its body.
2. U.S. Dialect. = walleyed pike. (Cf.walleyed pike)

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