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n. - Large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico.

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  • We dined today on the fish called the sheepshead, with crabs.
  • One kind whereof is by the English called a sheepshead from the resemblance the eye of it bears with the eye of a sheep.
  • Authorities in northwest Ohio say the fish - a Lake Erie freshwater drum, known as a sheepshead - smashed a car windshield
  • Say you're fishing in 40 feet of water in the Gulf, targeting non-reef species such as sheepshead, Spanish mackerel, kingfish and permit.
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