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Fish on many menus
Answer for the clue "Fish on many menus ", 7 letters:
snapper
Alternative clues for the word snapper
- Menu fish
- Seafood menu fish
- Fish dish
- Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water
- Large turtle
- Flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
- CFL centre or saltwater fish
- A party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
Word definitions for snapper in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rosefish \Rose"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large marine scorp[ae]noid food fish ( Sebastes marinus ) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch , hemdurgan , Norway haddok , and also, erroneously, snapper , bream , and bergylt ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff" [syn: center ] flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas a party favor consisting of a paper roll ...
Usage examples of snapper.
Henry Thompson and me tied up to a mangrove and baited us some snappers while we compared our lowdown on that posse.
In the darkness Enoch Mirren belched lightly from the quenelles of red snapper they had served him, and scooted around on the floor where he was sitting, trying to locate the source of the annoyed voice.
A Sarakkon sat against the open hatch of the aft companionway polishing his high shagreen boots with wax derived from the distilled oil of onaga, a deep-water snapper.
And now de whole world was eatin Louisiana cookin, Blackened Redfish, Red Snapper, Crawfish etouffee, all dat stuff in dem bays yeah.
Every afternoon he went out and caught for its supper a few dollar-sized pinfish, which he tossed off the dock, and which the barracuda devoured in lightning flashes that churned the water and sent the mangrove snappers diving for cover.
You pay out two thousand, say, for ten glorious days of not having to schlepp around Manhattan with all the gum snappers, panhandlers, the general roll call of sewer snipes.
Boys in Devonshire nickname the herb Snapjack, Snapcrackers, and Snappers.
Snapper handed Grace over to Dan, who introduced her to the executive assistants, Captains Manning and Randall, who greeted her cooly.
Now he did a roaring trade in snappers and groupers cooked to order at outrageous fees, with a flourishing sideline in fresh fish sales to the neighborhood each morning.
In the darkness Enoch Mirren belched lightly from the quenelles of red snapper they had served him, and scooted around on the floor where he was sitting, trying to locate the source of the annoyed voice.
All his usual enemies were there, however: sting-wings from the swamp, a multiplicity of flesh beetles, snappers, and various small carnivorous reptiles, together with fast-creepers and parasitic horrors too numerous to classify.
This was a constant chattering noise as made by armor-clad snappers, whose ferocity was legend.
No snappers dared approach the slow fire that even now drifted its long streamers of vapor into the air.
His weapon against so many snappers could only be fire, and if he could make fire in the tree and drop it down on them, he would stand a chance of gaining an escape route.
The panic among the snappers manifested itself in an untidy, angry exodus, which took them not from the island, as Bethschant had expected, but leaping and floundering out across the swamp tracts in the direction of the mainland.