Cryptic crossword clue
Perhaps sole snapper of fine individual women 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FISHES

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What does FISHES mean?

FISHES noun
  1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
  2. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  3. The flesh of the fish used as food.
  4. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  5. A woman.
  6. An easy victim for swindling.
  7. A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
  8. A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  9. A purchase used to fish the anchor.
  10. A torpedo.
  11. A paraphyletic grouping of the following extant taxonomic groups:
  12. The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
FISHES noun
  1. A period of time spent fishing.
  2. An instance of seeking something.
FISHES verb
  1. To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.
  2. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
  3. To use as bait when fishing.
  4. To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
  5. (followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
  6. Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  7. To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
  8. To hoist the flukes of.
FISHES noun
  1. A counter, used in various games.

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