All 7 Uses of
carp
in
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- O.K., it's called The Great Carp Escape.†
p. 62.2
- The Great Carp Escape was about a carp that was trying to get out of a net in the Flint River.†
p. 62.3
- The Great Carp Escape was about a carp that was trying to get out of a net in the Flint River.†
p. 62.3
- Since he was the star, Larry Dunn had to play the carp and the fence around Clark was the net.†
p. 62.5
- The director of the movie, Byron, didn't like the way the scene was going and made the carp redo it over and over again.†
p. 62.6 *
- "Let's see a little more fins this time, carp," Byron would say, then throw Larry into the fence.†
p. 62.7
- I could hear the jink-jink sound of that carp hitting the net and the screams and laughs of the audience from half a block away.†
p. 63.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(carp as in: carped incessantly) to repeatedly complain -- typically about unimportant things
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, carp is used as a noun to describe a common freshwater fish.