Definitions for tarpon

tarpon tar·pon

Spelling: [tahr-puh n]
IPA: /ˈtɑr pən/

Tarpon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in tarpon (anoprt).

Definitions for tarpon

noun

  1. a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales.

Origin of tarpon

1675-85; earlier tarpum, trapham, terbum, of uncertain origin; compare Dutch tarpoen; words in various Indian languages of Central America (Miskito tapam, Sumo tahpam, Rama tā́pum, Paya ta’pa

Examples for tarpon

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

But its manœuvres are different from a tuna's and similar to those of the tarpon.

The rolling of the tarpon diminished, and finally ceased as noon advanced.

They are the tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the Octopus.

He tells them you're going to have them all put in jail when you get back to tarpon.

Obviously, then, this becomes true of tarpon and sailfish and small tuna.

It was midnight when the little sloop at last crept into the harbor of tarpon.

My empire was not won; my first tarpon was as if he had never been.

All at once the tarpon began to show, to splash, to play, to roll.

We fished together—for bluefish in the Long Island sound and for tarpon at Islamorada.

Word Value for tarpon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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