Meaning & use
pollock
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UK/ˈpɒlək/
US/ˈpɑːlək/
Meaning
nouncountable or uncountable
A cold-water sea fish of the cod family, caught in huge numbers for food.
Grammar: Countable for the animal, uncountable as food: grilled pollock. The plural is usually pollock.
Patterns
- a fillet of pollock
The trawler came back with a full load of pollock.
We had breaded pollock and chips for dinner.
Alaska pollock is a major ingredient in imitation crab.
Word forms
| plural | pollock or pollocks |
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Common combinations
- Alaska pollock
- Alaska pollock is caught in the northern Pacific.
- pollock fillet
- She baked a pollock fillet with lemon.
- fried pollock
- The cafe serves fried pollock on Fridays.
- pollock fishery
- The pollock fishery supports many coastal towns.
- wild-caught pollock
- The label said wild-caught pollock.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pollack
- Pollack is simply a variant spelling of the same fish, and both are used.
- cod
- Cod is a larger, closely related fish that is often sold at a higher price than pollock.
- haddock
- Haddock is another cod-family fish, but it has a dark mark behind the head and a stronger flavor.
- whitefish
- Whitefish is a market term for several mild fish, so it is vaguer than pollock.
Word family
- pollack noun
- an alternative spelling of the same fish
Commonly confused: pollock or Pollock?
pollock vs Pollock
With a capital P, Pollock is the surname of the painter Jackson Pollock, not a fish.
Practice
What is pollock?
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Pollock is a cod-family fish used in fish sticks. Seaweed, shellfish and tools are different things.
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