Usually means: Deceives others using fake identity.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word catfish:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. catfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. catfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catfish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catfish, catfish: Wordnik
  7. catfish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catfish: Wiktionary
  9. catfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catfish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. catfish: Dictionary.com
  13. catfish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Catfish (Bob Dylan song), Catfish (Four Tops song), Catfish (Tamar Braxton song), Catfish (disambiguation), Catfish (film), Catfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Catfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. catfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. catfish: Rhymezone
  18. Catfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. CATFISH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. catfish: FreeDictionary.org
  21. catfish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. catfish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. catfish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catfish: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catfish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. catfish: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catfish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. catfish: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See catfishes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
noun:  The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
verb:  (intransitive) To fish for catfish.
noun:  (Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
noun:  (Internet) Such a false profile.
verb:  (Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).

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