Usually means: Small fish used as prey.
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  1. baitfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. baitfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. baitfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. baitfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. baitfish: Wordnik
  6. baitfish: Wiktionary
  7. baitfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. baitfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. baitfish: Dictionary.com
  10. Baitfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. baitfish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. baitfish: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (baitfish)

noun:  (fishing) Small fish such as minnows that are used as bait to catch larger predatory fish.
noun:  (fishing) Fish that can be caught using bait.

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