tin fish
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tin fish
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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A submarine needed only 15 seconds to let go with a "tin fish."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the pursuing U.S. destroyer Duncan nimble fingers adjusted a torpedo director, sent a tin fish on its way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Little by little, each class of troutlets learned to stay as far as possible from the tin fish hanging inside the ring.
From Time Magazine Archive
They associated painful shocks with the tin fish, and they associated the tin fish with the large live trout.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knowed a feller once that thought he was the angel Gabriel and went around with a tin fish horn, tooting it at all hours of the day and night.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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