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Goldfish

//ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.

    "For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a goldfish as a prize."

  2. 2
    A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.

    "They were both working on their second and The Bad Czech was threatening to break the pub record for eating Goldfish, previously held by the chairman of the division of chemistry. […] He took the little fish-shaped cracker and held it in fingers as big as 50-milliliter test tubes."

  3. 3
    small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes wordnet
  4. 4
    A person with an unreliable memory. figuratively, informal
  5. 5
    Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”). alt-of, nonstandard

    "Tomato soup is not complete without a toasted cheese sandwich and goldfishes. Not the new kind with the smiley faces though."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From gold + fish.

Etymology 2

From goldfish. Named after the shape and color.

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