shoobie
n.— «It’s not the people, perhaps, that we’re so concerned about who start fishing in March or April and continue to fish into late November, Rather, it’s the little folks, “shoobies” as we refer to them, who perhaps fish one day out of the year.» —by Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries in United States Congress House of Representatives Federal sport fishing fees: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations June 19, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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