kingfish
- n the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
- n large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
- n small silvery marine food fish found off California
- n any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
- n large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
- Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand.