fishhead

plural fishheads · alternative fish head · alternative fish-head

1. The head of a fish.
2. slangA member of a navy; a sailor; a fisherman.

   Being a Plymouth girl, I had heard plenty of racy stories about navy chaps, or fishheads as we called you. The navy regularly swarmed the streets of Plymouth on a Saturday night.

   2009, Dawn French, Dear Fatty, page 180

3. UShistoricalslangA person from New Brunswick.
4. USdatedslangA person from the western coast of Florida.
5. USslangA person from the West Indies or Caribbean.
6. ethnicoffensiveslangslurA person from Southeast Asia.

   For locking you fishheads up after Pearl Harbor.

   2009 July 20, Patriot Games, “Patriot Games Would Like to Apologize to Gooks”, in alt.politics (Usenet)

   2 more examples

   > >I see you are trying to post in chink. Ha!! Ha!! > > No, that was an English translation of your post. Your^([sic]) a fishhead Ha!! Ha!!

   2004 June 29, Cerberus, “Papers Please!”, in ok.general (Usenet)

   i thought jule chen and connie chung were both the same people...wat do i know. i cannot tell those fuckin people apart. fishheads.

   2018 September 11, The Starmaker, “Re: Julie / The Talk”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet)

7. New ZealandslangA member of the Head Hunters Motorcycle Club.