blackfish

Meanings

Noun

• The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
• Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger (species)).
• A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (genus) (occasionally also used for various other whales).
• Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis (species)) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata (species)).
• Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata (species), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus (species).

Verb

• To go fishing for blackfish.
• To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).

Origin

• From black + fish.