Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prominent squinting or staring eye.
- noun Squinting; strabismus.
- noun The rock-bass, a centrarchid fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family
Centrarchidæ , esp.Chænobryttus antistius , of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, andAmbloplites rupestris , of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. - noun The goggler.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait
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Examples
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It's basically a big spring creek, and the brown trout, rainbow trout smallmouth bass, and goggle-eye fishing is epic, and the scenery is amazing.
Outdoor Trips 2009
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It's basically a big spring creek, and the brown trout, rainbow trout smallmouth bass, and goggle-eye fishing is epic, and the scenery is amazing.
Outdoor Trips 2009
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It's basically a big spring creek, and the brown trout, rainbow trout smallmouth bass, and goggle-eye fishing is epic, and the scenery is amazing.
Outdoor Trips 2009
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It's basically a big spring creek, and the brown trout, rainbow trout smallmouth bass, and goggle-eye fishing is epic, and the scenery is amazing.
Outdoor Trips 2009
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Not long ago I was wading a local river for smallmouth and mixed in with the day's catch were a bunch of chunky rock bass (a.k.a. redeye, goggle-eye and rock perch).
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Families of Negroes were cane fishing in the shallows for goggle-eye perch and bullheads.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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We fished until almost dinnertime, then cleaned and scraped our stringer of bluegill, goggle-eye perch, and sacalait in the sluice of water from the windmill.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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As Head Six and Head Baltar walk down Times Square, a goggle-eye blue-barred pigeon flies onto Baltar's shoulder and perches there . . .
VARIANTS: DEATH BY PLOT-HOLE radii 2009
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For some reason, I thought Ed "Big Daddy" Roth had created the Weird-Ohs, those hot rod driving, goggle-eye, leering monsters clutching oversized shiftsticks.
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Any pet store contains goggle-eye, big-cheeked goldfish by the bowlful.
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