Meaning of Starfish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
2. Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
   obsolete
3. A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
   slang
4. The anus.
   slang, usually, vulgar

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Examples

“Near-synonym: Asteroidea”

“But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.”

“Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.”

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