blackfish

Meanings

1. An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
2. Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
3. A pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales).
4. Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
5. Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.

1. To go fishing for blackfish.

1. To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).

Etymology

From black + fish.