Definitions for barracuda

barracuda bar·ra·cu·da

Spelling: [bar-uh-koo-duh]
IPA: /ˌbær əˈku də/

Barracuda is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in barracuda (aaabcdrru).

Definitions for barracuda

noun

  1. any of several elongated, predaceous, tropical and subtropical marine fishes of the genus Sphyraena, certain species of which are used for food.
  2. Slang. a treacherous, greedy person.

Origin of barracuda

1670-80; American Spanish

Examples for barracuda

I did not know then, as I know now, that barracuda grow to twelve feet in the Caribbean.

About ten-thirty of this most delightful and favorable day we ran into a school of barracuda.

A barracuda was caught by research scientists near Santa Cruz.

With one powerful sweep I hit one of the barracuda on the head.

His tail was big like that of a tuna, and his head sharper, more wolfish than a barracuda.

They looked like barracuda to me, only they were almost as silvery as a tarpon.

Mostly they are caught by accident while drags are set for kingfish or barracuda.

We worked around him awhile, but he would not take a barracuda or a flying-fish.

Come to think of it, it was more Great White than barracuda.

We circled him three times with barracuda, and again with a flying-fish.

Word Value for barracuda
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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