🐟 A noisy fish 🍽️ Fish meat

croaker

9.3

Lean saltwater fish meat often sold and eaten as food

noun
/ˈkroʊkər/

: croaker

He sighed and flipped the croaker without breaking it apart.

Examples

The fresh croaker sizzled in the skillet, filling the kitchen with a delightful aroma.
The fresh croaker sizzled in the skillet.

Fiction book (1999)
At the seafood market, I bought some croaker for dinner that night.
Our favorite dish is grilled croaker, served with lemon and herbs.

Synonyms

saltwater fish

vscroaker

1 1.9

Meat from fish that live in the sea and people eat

is a specific edible part of those animals rather than the whole animal

croaker fish

vscroaker

Specialized

6.9

A fish that lives near the shore and makes a croaking sound

is the edible lean flesh of that animal rather than the live animal

Compounds

croaker fish

Specialized

6.9

A fish that lives near the shore and makes a croaking sound

Atlantic croaker

8.6

A silvery sea fish with dark marks and a small chin whisker that makes a croaking sound

white croaker

9.1

A small silver fish that lives in shallow coastal waters off California and is eaten

yellowfin croaker

9.3

A fish with yellow fins that makes a croaking sound and lives off the Pacific coast of North America

Surface Forms

croaker singular

croakers plural

Morphology

croaker = croak (semi-transparent) = croak + er

The derivation 'one that croaks' is clear, but identifying it specifically as a named food fish is not fully predictable from the base alone.

Etymology

Croaker for the fish meat comes from the same idea: people call the flesh croaker because it comes from the fish named for its 'croak' sound. So croaker as a dish is simply the fish's name used for its meat.