loose fish

noun

Someone of irregular or dissolute habits.

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Meanings

nounloose fish (plural loose fish)
  1. colloquialSomeone of irregular or dissolute habits.

    Mr. Wade began to repent of his too easy taking of matters in the beginning. Not that he had a suspicion of Rex, but that he had remembered that Dick was always a loose fish.

    1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2
  2. obsoleteA prostitute.
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