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Starfish
Definitions
- 1 Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
"Near-synonym: Asteroidea"
- 2 echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk wordnet
- 3 Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod. obsolete
"But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms."
- 4 A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs. slang
- 5 The anus. slang, usually, vulgar
"Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish."
- 1 To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. intransitive
""Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up."
- 2 To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.; While floating on water intransitive
- 3 To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. transitive
"The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands."
Etymology
From star + fish.
From star + fish.
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