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Answer for the clue ""Shortfin" or "longfin" fish ", 4 letters:
mako

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The Mako is a fast-paced dance from Tonga which is performed by young men. Accompanied by an extremely fast rhythm on a drum or tin can, dancers perform wild gestures involving their entire bodies; they point in various directions, run, sit, roll, or lay ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"large blue shark," listed as 1727 in OED, from "The History of Japan," English translation of Engelbert Kaempfer's German manuscript; however this is claimed by some to be an error, and some say Kaempfer's word represents Japanese makkô(-kujira) "sperm ...

Usage examples of mako.

He had calmly urged the hostaged athletes to be ready for an escape, but Mako had been skeptical.

The slim Oriental, Mako Samata, looked wan but otherwise peaceful within himself.

Thomas towered over the wiry Oriental, but Mako projected the impression that he was the much taller man.

Bolan noticed that Thomas kept a respectable distance between himself and Mako, even as he lectured the man.

He had taken no more than half a dozen steps when the front door of the cabin swung open and Mako stepped out with a bored expression on his face.

Bolan could not be sure that Mako had understood him, had caught the movement of the eyes that assigned the guy with the Uzi to him.

Even as he was still grabbing at the shotgun he saw Mako leap across the van at the terrorist with the Uzi.

C-17 while they wait for replacement parts, then for Mako to complete the repairs.

We were pleased to hear that several Marlin swordfish and two mako had already been taken at Cape Brett.

One boatman told me he had caught twenty-four Marlin, three mako shark, and one thresher shark, moss of which had been foul hooked, during the season of 1925.

One of the boatmen on another boat called to us that his angler had fought a mako for two hours, and had lost it.

When we came upon the two anglers they had brought up a two-hundred-pound mako and at the moment were quite busily engaged.

The boatman was beating the mako over the head with a hammer, and another man was stabbing at the fish with what looked like a narrow spade.

This mako, the first I ever saw, and then did not have a good look at it, appeared to be a wild game fish.

When I struck I waited breathlessly to see the mako leap, but he did not.