rifle fish

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rifle fish (plural rifle fish)

  1. (Australia) Any of several tropical freshwater fish of the family Toxotidae.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:
      The other fish Will expected could be hooked, perhaps, a few reasonable-sized freshwater sooty grunter, rifle fish or bream, if the boat was in the main water arteries coming up to the coast from the spring-fed river systems.

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