starfish
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.Examples: "But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms."obsolete
2. (slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.Synonyms: cold fish, dead fishslang
3. (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.Examples: "Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish."Synonyms: chocolate starfishslangusuallyvulgar
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.Examples: ""Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up."; "The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.intransitive
3. (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.Examples: "The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary