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swordfish
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Swordfish: The Album is the original soundtrack of the 2001 film Swordfish . It was produced by Paul Oakenfold under Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. and distributed through London Sire Records, Inc.
Wiktionary
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n. A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, ''Xiphias gladius''. vb. To fish for swordfish.
WordNet
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n. flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But restaurants sometimes find it harder to peddle sweatshirts than swordfish . ▪ Fish is something of a speciality with restaurants offering everything from grilled swordfish and lobster, to baby eels in garlic butter. ▪ He ...
Usage examples of swordfish.
Then the man bought a kilo of swordfish, paid for it, and went home, his head singing with the kif he had smoked.
We were pleased to hear that several Marlin swordfish and two mako had already been taken at Cape Brett.
Anyway, he was out spotting swordfish for the commercial boats, and he saw a sportfisherman this side of Block, setting out a humongous chum slick.
The Quitsa Strider and the Unicorn were both moored in the picturesque harbor, but no sign of their two island captains, brothers who are descendants of original Vineyard settlers, who still caught their swordfish by harpooning them rather than dragging a gill net at sea for days.
If I had not had a vivid and fertile imagination I would not have been the first to catch sailfish and swordfish in different and unfished waters of the world.
They excited my curiosity to such extent that I got out photographs of yellow-fin tuna, broadbill swordfish, Marlin swordfish, and sailfish.
I was tremendously thrilled by the sight of an amazingly large broadbill swordfish.
I was especially curious about this drifting with bait down deep, which was something I had always wanted to try on broadbill swordfish.
Surely that brown-hooked rakish leathery dorsal could not belong to a broadbill swordfish, one of my old gladiator friends way down here in the Antipodes!
He actually had something of the look of a broadbill swordfish without the sword.
This was an old familiar, thrilling custom of mine, and had been learned over many years roaming the sea for signs of tuna or broadbill swordfish.
Schooling horsehead jacks, ling, solitary grouper, three swordfish cutting through shimmering clouds of pinfish, and a hammerhead shark cruising the outer edge of the schools.
I received a funny letter from a man who appeared somewhat annoyed at the tremendous importance apparently given me by the newspapers over my proposed swordfishing, and the amount of space given my tackle.
And so it was that when Captain Jodan decided that it was time for his boys to go to sea, he contacted his friend and handed the boys over to serve as deckhands on board Dalto’s ship, the Swordfish.
I utterly ignore her, to no avail, and while she's in midsentence – Page Six, Jackie O – I resort to waving our waiter over and ordering the cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill, an arugula Caesar salad and swordfish meat loaf with kiwi mustard, even though I already ordered this and he tells me so.