"hoodfish" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: hoodfishes [present, singular, third-person], hoodfishing [participle, present], hoodfished [participle, past], hoodfished [past]
Etymology: From hood (“clipping of neighborhood”) + -fish. Etymology templates: {{af|en|hood|-fish|t1=clipping of neighborhood}} hood (“clipping of neighborhood”) + -fish Head templates: {{en-verb}} hoodfish (third-person singular simple present hoodfishes, present participle hoodfishing, simple past and past participle hoodfished)
  1. (neologism) To pretend to be from a city that one is dating in. Tags: neologism

Inflected forms

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