Usually means: Large cetacean, often orca specifically.
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  1. blackfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. blackfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blackfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blackfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blackfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blackfish, blackfish: Wordnik
  7. blackfish: Wiktionary
  8. blackfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blackfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Blackfish, blackfish: Dictionary.com
  11. Blackfish (Shawnee leader), Blackfish (cetaceans), Blackfish (disambiguation), Blackfish (film), Blackfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Blackfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. blackfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. blackfish: Rhymezone
  15. Blackfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. blackfish: FreeDictionary.org
  17. blackfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. blackfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. blackfish: Cook's Thesaurus

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  1. blackfish: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blackfish)

noun:  (chiefly Scotland) An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
noun:  Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
noun:  A pilot whale] (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales).
noun:  (Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
verb:  (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
verb:  (Internet slang, derogatory, of a non-black person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).

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