crappie

[krap-ee]

crap·pie

[krap-ee]
noun, plural crap·pies, (especially collectively) crap·pie.
either of two small sunfishes of central U.S. rivers, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie).
Also, croppie.


Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; < Canadian French crapet
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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crappie (ˈkræpɪ)
 
n
either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
 
[C19: from Canadian French crapet]

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