starfish

Meanings

Noun

• Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
• Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
• A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
• The anus. Category:en:Pornography

Verb

• To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
• To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

Related

Similar words

• sea star, asteroid
• cold fish, dead fish

Origin

• star + fish
• Image:Starfish.jpg|thumb|250px|a starfish