loose fish

English

Noun

loose fish (plural loose fish)

  1. (colloquial) Someone of irregular or dissolute habits.
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A prostitute.
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