Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- See under crappie.
noun, plural crap·pies, (especially collectively) crap·pie.
- either of two small sunfishes of central U.S. rivers, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie).
noun
- either of two North American freshwater percoid food and game fishes, Pomoxis nigromaculatus (black crappie) or P. annularis (white crappie): family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)
type of freshwater fish, 1856, American English, of unknown origin; perhaps from Canadian French dialectal crappé.