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n. Any of several chiefly marine percoid fishes of the family Centropomidae, especially Centropomus undecimalis, a food and game fish of warm Atlantic waters. Also called sergeant fish.

n. A gesture of derision or defiance.

idiom. snook Chiefly British To thumb one's nose: "[The clock] is set wrong and hung crooked, as if to cock a snook at the importance of time” ( Kevin Crossley-Holland).

n. A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.

n. A name for various other fishes. See Snook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

v. To fish for snook.

n. A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.

v. To sniff out.

verb-intransitive. To lurk; to lie in ambush.

n. A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.

n. The cobia.

n. The garfish.

To lurk; lie in ambush; pry about.

To smell; search out

n. The cobia, crab-eater, or sergeant-fish, Elacate canada. See cut under cobia

n. Any fish of the genus Centropomus; a robalo. See robalo, and cut under Centropomus.

n. A garfish.

n. A carangoid fish, Thyrsites atun: so called at the Cape of Good Hope, and also snoek (a Dutch form).

n. The pike and various other fishes of similar shape.

n. large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike

"BoingBoing reader Edward translates, "The phrase 'cocking a snook' is brit for the five-fingered salute (thumb to nose, fingers waggling).""

robalo   

ravallia    robalo   

cock a snook    snook-cocking    cocking of a snook    snook-cocker    bay snook    common snook   

lurk   

Brook    Brooke    Chinook    Cook    Cooke    Crook    Hooke    Kirkuk    book    brook