Fish (disambiguation)

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Fish are vertebrates with gills that live in water. The word may also apply to the fish as food or to the act of fishing, either commercially or for recreation. The fisheries industry also recognises white fish, oily fish, inkfish, and shellfish, though these are not taxonomic groups. A variety of animals that are not actually fish have the word as part of their name for etymological or commercial reasons, such as shellfish, jellyfish, cuttlefish, crawfish, and crayfish.

Contents 1 People 2 As a nickname 3 Acronyms 4 Culture 5 Miscellaneous uses 6 Slang uses

[edit] People

• Albert Fish (1870-1936), U.S. serial killer and cannibal, electrocuted
• Fred Fish, U.S. computer programmer
• Ginger Fish, drummer for the band Marilyn Manson
• Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), U.S. politician
• Mardy Fish (born 1981), U.S. professional tennis player
• Matt Fish (born 1969), U.S. basketball player
• Michael Fish (born 1944), BBC weather presenter
• Stanley Fish (born 1938), literary theorist
• Stuyvesant Fish (1851-1923), U.S. railroad executive
• Robert Fish (1912-1981), U.S. writer

[edit] As a nickname

• Fish (singer) (Derek Dick, born 1958), singer
• Fish Leong, nickname of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian singer
• Philip Fisher (musician), drummer
• Chris Squire, Yes bassist

[edit] Acronyms

• FISH (cipher) (FIbonacci SHrinking), a stream cipher published in 1993
• FISh programming language, an array programming language
• FISH! Philosophy, a motivational program for the workplace
• Fish (cryptography) (sometimes FISH), the British codeword for World War II German stream cipher teleprinter secure communications devices
• "Fighting In Someone's House", a parody of the official British military term FIBUA (Fighting In Built-Up Areas)
• Files transferred over shell protocol
• Fluorescent in situ hybridization, a technique used in genetics to detect DNA sequences
• Friendly interactive shell, a UNIX command shell

[edit] Culture

• Fish (television), a 1970s US TV show featuring Detective Phillip Fish
• Fish (BBC TV series), featuring an idealistic lawyer who specializes in industrial tribunals
• The Ichthys or "Jesus fish", a Christian symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs resembling the profile of a fish

[edit] Miscellaneous uses

• Fish, a design of surfboard
• Fish!, a text adventure game
• Go Fish, a card game for children
• Phish, the American rock band
• Phishing, an Internet crime

[edit] Slang uses

• Fish: the new member of a group, especially an institution such as a freshman in college, a newly incarcerated prison inmate, and in poker jargon
• Fish and fishes have been used in American English slang to refer to African Americans
• The Fish is an often-used nickname for the Florida Marlins.