snook Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike

WordNet

Snook intransitive verb
Etymology
Prov. E. snook to search out, to follow by the scent; cf. Sw. snoka to lurk, LG. snöggen, snuckern, snökern, to snuffle, to smell about, to search for.
Definitions
  1. To lurk; to lie in ambush. Obs.
Snook noun
Etymology
D. snoek.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish.

Webster 1913