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Gar

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Noun

1. billfish, gar, garfish, garpike, lepisosteus osseus

primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

2. billfish, gar, needlefish

elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

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Gar

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nounWord forms: plural gar or gars
short for garpike, garfish
verb
(transitive) Scottish
to cause or compel

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Gar

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Grand Army of the Republic
nounWord forms: plural gar or gars
1. 
any of an order (Semionotiformes) of North American freshwater bony fishes having an elongated body covered with ganoid scales, a long beaklike snout, and many sharp teeth
2. 
needlefish

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gar

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n.
1. Any of several fishes of the family Lepisosteidae of fresh and brackish waters of North and Central America and Cuba, having an elongated body and long narrow jaws with sharp teeth. Also called garfish, garpike.
2. A needlefish.
tr.v. garred, gar·ring, gars
Scots
To cause or compel.
abbr.
Grand Army of the Republic

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