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Noun: pollock  pó-luk
  1. Lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
    - pollack
     
  2. Important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod
    - pollack, Pollachius pollachius
     
  3. North Atlantic food fish of the cod family; the flesh of the fish
    - coalfish, coley, saithe, sillock
Noun: Pollock  pó-luk
  1. United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
    - Jackson Pollock

Derived forms: pollocks

Type of: gadoid, gadoid fish, painter, saltwater fish

Part of: genus Pollachius, Pollachius

Encyclopedia: Pollock, Missouri