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Closely related to spiny puffers
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blowfish
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also blow-fish , 1862, American English, from blow (v.1) + fish (n.).\n\nThen he described another odd product of the bay, that was known as the blow-fish, and had the power of inflating himself with air when taken out of the water. ["The Young Nimrods ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blowfish are species of fish in the Tetraodontidae family. Blowfish may also refer to: Blowfish (cipher) , an encryption algorithm Blowfish (company) , an American erotic goods supplier The Blowfish , a satirical newspaper at Brandeis University Lexington ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
blowfish \blow"fish\ n. a fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan. It is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison (tetrodotoxin) in its ovaries and liver. Chefs require special training to learn how to remove the poisonous parts, and in Japan ...
Usage examples of blowfish.
In reality, there was no such thing as an avenging blowfish, which made it a perfect name for a covert baseball team preparing for a game that might not exist.
Avenging Blowfish looked at curiously as we stood around the pool table with bottles of beer, like members of the Allied Supreme Command preparing for a final strike against Nazi Germany.
They knew one another from previous Blowfish missions, and she liked to flirt with them over the radio.
I could see us up all night on the deck of the Blowfish, running out of saber-saw blades.
Tried to send some boats up the channel to get us from that direction, but Jim blocked the deep part of the river with the Blowfish and they skragged one of their propellers on an old oil drum.
Fisk - and the Blowfish and the truck from the hardware store and a Lincoln with two rent-a-dicks all converged on Blue Kills Beach.
Then we went back to the Blowfish, which blazed with light and cast a heavenly garlic smell across the water.
We went out to the Blowfish, picked up a portable pump and motored back in toward shore.
What they came up with was this: several state troopers and Blue Kills policemen took a coast guard boat out to the Blowfish - which a trooper boarded, just to show the flag - and then their boat escorted us way around to the north and into a dock that was part of Blue Kills proper, not Blue Kills Beach.
On the Blowfish, I chatted with Dick, the state trooper, a pretty affable guy of about forty.
He was always happy to visit Boston and was coming east anyway, to work with the Blowfish in Buffalo.
Up at the Falls, she and the Blowfish people had some big splashy affair planned for the media, involving Canadians and Indians.
I dropped Alan and Debbie off at the marina where the Blowfish was parked.
Debbie went out on the boat to plan the Niagara gig, while Alan and I, along with Frank, the largest member of the Blowfish crew, took the U-Haul outside of town to a big home-and-garden store.
At the moment it had the serious expression of somebody who could authenticate fake blowfish spine necklaces and make it stick.