[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Any of several sticklebacks.

- Either of two porgies of shallow waters on the eastern and Gulf coasts of the United States: Lagodon rhomboides, which has a dark spot on the lateral line behind the gill cover, and (more fully "spottail pinfish") Diplodus holbrooki, which has a black saddle on the caudal peduncle.


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887). From pin + fish, with reference to the sharp dorsal spines of these fishes