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fish
verb- to dance in a slow and sexual manner, moving the body but not the feet US
- “Something slow and sweet so we can fish.” The music came on, and he took her in the close, tight embrace of the dance[.] — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 28, 1952
- You ever dance fish, West? — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 159, 1954
- We fished real close and felt each other up. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 223, 1969
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 29, 1973
- in gin, to discard in a manner that is designed to lure a desired card from an opponent US, 1965
- — Irwin Steig, Play Gin to Win, p. 138
- in poker, to stay with a bad hand in the hope of drawing the only card that can possibly make the hand a good one US
- — Victor H. Royer, Casino Gamble Talk, p. 57, 2003
- to use a prison’s plumbing system to pass a note from cell to cell US
- [F]ishing (passing messages from one cell to another by flushing a line attached to a kite down the toilet, to be retrieved by another inmate housed in another cell[.] — Bill Valentine, Gangs and Their Tattoos, p. 38, 2000
▶ fish for food
to gossip US- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
▶ fish on the half-line
in the Maritime Provinces, to fish for half of the catch as wages CANADA- In return for his investment the factory owner received one-half of the season’s catch from each boat. This was referred to as “fishing half-line.” — J. Clinton Morrison, Along the North Shore, p. 70, 1983
▶ fish or cut bait; fish, cut bait or go ashore
make up your mind! US, 1860
The shorter, two-option phrase is more popular today than the longer original.- — Charles F. Haywood, Yankee Dictionary, p. 59, 1963
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