tilapia

See also: Tilapia, tilápia, and tilapią

English
A side view of a fish
Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Etymology

From translingual Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".

Pronunciation
  • (General American) IPA(key): /təˈlɑːpiə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɪˈlɑːpiə/, /tɪˈlæpiə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːpiə, -æpiə

Noun

tilapia (plural tilapias or tilapia)

  1. Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
    Synonym: St. Peter's fish
    • 2006, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Bottom of the World:
      Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
      On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.
  2. (drag slang) A fishy (resembling a cisgender woman) drag queen; a drag queen who could pass for a woman, as opposed to one who is exaggeratedly feminine.
    • 2019 June 13, Sam Damshenas, “Drag Race star Plastique Tiara wants to be a "pioneer" for the queer Asian community”, in Gay Times‎, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-01:
      Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.

Derived terms

Translations

Polish
tilapia

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiˈla.pja/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -apja
  • Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

Noun

tilapia f

  1. tilapia

Declension
Declension of tilapia
singular plural
nominative tilapia tilapie
genitive tilapii tilapii/tilapij (archaic)
dative tilapii tilapiom
accusative tilapię tilapie
instrumental tilapią tilapiami
locative tilapii tilapiach
vocative tilapio tilapie

Further reading
  • tilapia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiˈlapja/ [t̪iˈla.pja]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -apja
  • Syllabification: ti‧la‧pia

Noun

tilapia f (plural tilapias)

  1. tilapia

Further reading
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