choupique
nounUS /ʃuˈpik/
Etymology Borrowed from Louisiana French choupique, from Choctaw shupik (“bowfin, mudfish”).
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Louisiana The bowfin fish, Amia calva
- Them choupiques and ugly alligator gar done wanted to snap his damn hands off when he pulled them in the boat.2001, M. F. Korn, Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, page 25: