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snook
1[ snook, snook ]
noun
- any basslike fish of the genus Centropomus, especially C. undecimalis, inhabiting waters off Florida and the West Indies and south to Brazil, valued as food and game.
- any of several related marine fishes.
snook
2[ snook, snook ]
noun
- a gesture of defiance, disrespect, or derision.
snook
1/ snuːk /
noun
- any of several large game fishes of the genus Centropomus, esp C. undecimalis of tropical American marine and fresh waters: family Centropomidae (robalos)
- the sea pike Australuzza novaehollandiae
snook
2/ snuːk /
noun
- cock a snookcock a snook
- to make a rude gesture by putting one thumb to the nose with the fingers of the hand outstretched
- to show contempt by being insulting or offensive
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Idioms and Phrases
- cock a / one's snook, to thumb the nose: Also cock a snoot.
a painter who cocks a snook at traditional techniques.
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Example Sentences
On Pushing Daisies, her Olive Snook was lonely, lovesick, and brokenhearted, while still positively hysterical.
Along the edges of shoals and mud-flats and over grassy banks the snook will be found at home.
Owing to this dark stripe the cobia is sometimes called sergeant-fish, thus confounding it with the snook.
It is known as snook on the east coast, and as rovallia on the west coast, a corruption of its Cuban name, robalo.
It was carved all over with the totemic images of the eagle and the brown bear, the totems of Snook's family.
A few days after this visit to Snook's house I was sitting in my house, which was within the stockade of the old fort.
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