eel

noun

1. Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.

   “Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.”

2. A European eel (Anguilla anguilla).
3. Various other animals that resemble true eels, chiefly in shape:
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13. Someone or something that is sneaky and/or hard to catch.

    “That Dennis is a right eel, he always seems to slip away from the scene at the right time.”

    “His expression when incredulous. "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel.”

    “Philosophers and literary critics from ancient times, along with social scientists, physicians, theologians, and biblical scholars more recently, have tried to get a tentative handle, if not a firm grasp, on this "slippery eel" of humor and laughter.”

    “John scowled after the dog. "Never fear, my lady. I shall get the sneaky, slippery eel yet."”

verb

1. (intransitive)To fish for eels.
2. (intransitive)To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

name

1. A township in Cass County, Indiana, United States, probably named after the Eel River.