Definitions for tarpons

tarpons tar·pon

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

Tarpons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in tarpons (anoprst).

Definitions for tarpons

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 tarpons

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 tarpons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tarpons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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