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pollack

[ pol-uhk ]

noun

, plural pol·lacks, (especially collectively) pol·lack.
  1. a food fish, Pollachius pollachius, of the cod family, inhabiting coastal North Atlantic waters from Scandinavia to northern Africa. Also especially British, .


Pollack

1

/ ˈpɒlək /

noun

  1. PollackSydney19342008MUSFILMS AND TV: director Sydney. 1934–2008, US film director. His films include Tootsie (1982), Out of Africa (1986), and The Firm (1993)


pollack

2

/ ˈpɒlək /

noun

  1. a gadoid food fish, Pollachius pollachius, that has a dark green back and a projecting lower jaw and occurs in northern seas, esp the North Atlantic Ocean

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pollack1

First recorded in 1495–1505; assimilated variant of podlok (Scots); akin to Scots paddle “lumpfish”; -ock

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pollack1

C17: from earlier Scottish podlok, of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

As Pollack reminded, employer provided health insurance still remains under the law.

Lately, according to Ken Pollack, Washington and Tehran have been in a kind of unexpected entente in Iraq.

In a statement, James Pollack dismissed Waldron as a “former staffer with an ax to grind.”

When asked if he can explain how it helps his patients with MS, Pollack rambles off a laundry list with ease.

Harold Pollack calls it "the first story about Mitt Romney's Bain years that genuinely angers me".

And, moreover, I was cooped up with two of the worst bores in Christendom, Pollack and the captain.

Pollack kept cooler and chewed his pipe watchfully with that blue eye of his upon the captain's gestures.

They learnt that the prestige of the British arms had been restored by Pollack, and that the campaign was ended.

And I never yet heard of pollack swimmin' ashore and begging to be split and dried against winter.

And you want I should go down to that place and live on pollack and potatoes till them folks die, for the sake of just a home?

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