Cryptic crossword clue
Questionable failure one short

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FISHY

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What does FISHY mean?

FISHY 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.
FISHY noun
  1. A period of time spent fishing.
  2. An instance of seeking something.
FISHY noun
  1. A counter, used in various games.
FISHY adjective
  1. Of, from, or similar to fish.
  2. Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
  3. Of drag queens: appearing feminine.

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