Meaning
A large, powerful silver fish with big shining scales, found around coasts, harbours, and river mouths — famous as a hard-fighting sport fish that leaps when hooked. Its flesh is bony and not much prized for eating, so tarpon is mostly known for the fight it gives the line-fisherman.
Examples
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A big tarpon jump when him hook it.
A big tarpon leapt when he hooked it.
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Tarpon fight hard pon di line.
Tarpon fight hard on the line.
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Di tarpon scale big an shiny.
The tarpon's scales are big and shiny.
Origin
Of uncertain origin; a large silver sport fish (Megalops atlanticus). See [[snook]], [[king-fish]].
How it’s used
A big, hard-fighting silver sport fish; bony, not prized for eating. See [[snook]], [[jack-fish]].