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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑlək/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒlək/

From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok.

Pollachius pollachius: Pollock

Pollachius virens: Pollock

• pollack

pollock (plural pollocks or **pollock)

1. Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.
   Hypernyms: gadid < gadiform < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
   Coordinate terms: (other commercially important gadiforms) cod (Gadus sense), cod (Gadus morhue sense), hake, haddock, whiting, ling, cusk
   1. Pollachius pollachius.
      Synonyms: Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lythe
   2. Pollachius virens.
      Synonyms: Boston blues, coalfish, coley, silver bills, saithe

• Alaska pollock
• Atlantic pollock
• European pollock

pollock (third-person singular simple present pollocks, present participle pollocking, simple past and past participle pollocked)

1. To fish for pollock.

• “pollock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Jackson Pollock, an American artist who painted in splatters.

Tornadoes at sunset by Tom Sulcer (2007). Paint pollocked on board

pollock (third-person singular simple present pollocks, present participle pollocking, simple past and past participle pollocked)

1. To splatter, as with paint.

• Jackson Pollock