Sheepshead (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural (especially collectively) sheeps·head, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) sheeps·heads for 1-3.
  1. a deep-bodied, black-banded food fish, Archosargus probatocephalus, living along the Atlantic coast of the United States, chiefly around southwest Florida, and southward to Brazil.
  2. a freshwater fish, the drum Aplodinotus grunniens, found throughout the eastern half of the United States and southward to Guatemala.
  3. sheephead.
  4. an earlier and simpler form of skat.
  5. a foolish or stupid person.
noun plural -head or -heads
  1. any of several sparid fishes with strong crushing teeth, esp Archosargus rhomboidalis, of the American Atlantic, which is marked with dark bands
Sheepshead (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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