Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as calamary, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cuttlefish. See cuttlefish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun colloquial cuttlefish.

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Examples

  • This helps explain the disconnect between Chinese vehicle and oil markets, especially as new cars are more fuel-efficient than inkfish.

    China's Thirst for Oil Could Come Up Short 2010

  • So while 13.6 million cars, trucks and buses were sold in China last year, another 36 million or so other, low-technology vehicles were sold, including those inkfish.

    China's Thirst for Oil Could Come Up Short 2010

  • Not exactly this have they got at nor the meaning of flowers—O flowers, flowers slung by a dancing girl—in the saddest play the inkfish, Shakespeare, ever wrote;

    They All Want to Play Hamlet. II. People Who Must 1920

  • Most of David's recipes were feasible, if daunting quail risotto, stewed inkfish with the eyes carefully removed.

    NYT > Home Page By LAURA SHAPIRO 2011

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