fish stick
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1.0
- noun
- /fɪʃ stɪk/
- US
:
palito de pescado
- I love dipping my fish sticks in ketchup while watching a movie.
- frozen fish sticks
- eat fish sticks
- fish sticks for dinner
You'll have every Penguin in there fucking just just beaten open a thing of fish sticks.
- You'll have every Penguin in there fucking just just beaten open a thing of fish sticks.
Examples
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I'd love to have the fish sticks.
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For dinner, we decided to bake some fish sticks and serve them with a side of tartar sauce.
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I know what fish sticks are.
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Do you like fish sticks?
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Break out the fish sticks, honey.
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After that, I never ate fish sticks again.
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There's fish sticks in the freezer, baby.
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Today they shared a lunch of soggy fish sticks and canned English peas and watched an episode of Guiding Light.
Fiction book (2001) -
But if you want dinner... you have a choice of fish sticks or beef stroganoff... and both come out of the package, but I'll pre-heat the oven for you.
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Denise said, "My mother would do something like make fish sticks and tater tots for us to eat and complain about how much work she'd done."
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
2
1.0
A long thin piece of fish covered in breadcrumbs and fried or baked
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'fish' (the edible flesh) + 'stick' (a long thin object) yields a long, thin piece of fish, typically a breaded/ fried food item. This concrete, shape‑and‑content combination follows a common noun‑noun compounding pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Fish stick comes from a simple picture: a long, thin piece of fish that looks like a stick and is covered in breadcrumbs or batter before cooking. That's why the name now means 'a breaded or battered piece of fish, often sold frozen and cooked quickly'.