catfish meaning and definition

CATFISH noun

Definition of catfish (noun)

1. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
   • synonyms: mudcat
2. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
   • synonyms: wolf fish, wolffish
3. any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
   • synonyms: siluriform fish