sheepshead

[ sheeps-hed ]

/ ˈʃipsˌhɛd /

a deep-bodied, black-banded food fish, Archosargus probatocephalus, living along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.

a freshwater drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of eastern North America.

sheephead.

Also called schafskopf. Cards. an earlier and simpler form of skat.

Obsolete. a foolish or stupid person.

Origin of sheepshead

First recorded in 1535–45; sheep + 's¹ + head

Born and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, he grew up in a blue-collar family.

Andrew Dice Clay on ‘Blue Jasmine,’ His Alleged Misogyny, and More |Marlow Stern |July 25, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Fox switched to a WNYW-TV report on rising water near a group of homes in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.

A Hurricane of Hype |Howard Kurtz |August 28, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
For sheepshead you want clam bait—for the others, mullet is best.

Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. |Various
One of the young women looked at the sheepshead aquarium and murmured: "What long bills they have."

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair |Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')

One kind whereof is by the English called a sheepshead from the resemblance the eye of it bears with the eye of a sheep.

The Bounty of the Chesapeake |James Wharton
The wharf just across the bay at Sanibel Island is also a famous locality for sheepshead.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall
I was much interested watching the chub and sheepshead pinching off the barnacles from the piles with their chisel-like teeth.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall

sheepshead

/ (ˈʃiːpsˌhɛd) /

any of several sparid fishes with strong crushing teeth, esp Archosargus rhomboidalis, of the American Atlantic, which is marked with dark bands