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Catfish was added to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 2014. [14] An associate editor at Merriam-Webster noted that the word was "such a sensation from the moment that it came on the scene," attributing its popularity to both Schulman's documentary and the Manti Te'o story. [15]
The term is believed to originate from the 2010 documentary “Catfish,” in which a young Nev Schulman starts an online relationship with teenager “Megan”, who turns out to be an older woman.
Catfish, a label for various fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assays; Catfish, a railfan nickname for Norfolk Southern Railway wide cab locomotives; Columbus Catfish, a baseball team in the South Atlantic League; USS Catfish, a submarine; Catfish, the No Place counterpart of Big the Cat from Sonic Prime
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Italian fisherman Dino Ferrari caught a 280-lb. Wels Catfish Thursday in Italy's Po Delta river, setting a new record. The U.K. Mirror reported that the catch is the world's largest wels catfish ...
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes / s ɪ ˈ lj ʊər ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraíba of South America, to ...