dogfish
dawg fish
- n primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
- n any of several small sharks
- The lab's peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers.
- In recent years, piked dogfish, a small spiny shark, has begun to stand in for cod in the fish and chips served by British pubs, and the Patagonian toothfish has become a popular .
- Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish.