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- Dictionarycarp/kɑːp/
noun
- 1. a deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. Carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are often kept in large ponds.
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The meaning of CARP is to find fault or complain querulously. How to use carp in a sentence.
CARP definition: 1. a large fish that lives in lakes and rivers and can be eaten 2. to complain all the time about…. Learn more.
verb (used without object) to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors. Synonyms: censure, condemn, deprecate, criticize.
CARP meaning: 1. a large fish that lives in lakes and rivers and can be eaten 2. to complain all the time about…. Learn more.
1. a freshwater teleost food fish, Cyprinus carpio, having a body covered with cycloid scales, a naked head, one long dorsal fin, and two barbels on each side of the mouth: family Cyprinidae. 2. any other fish of the family Cyprinidae; a cyprinid. Related adjectives: cyprinid, cyprinoid.
A carp is a freshwater fish belonging to the Cyprinidae family, which is native to Europe and Asia. To carp, on the other hand, is universal. To carp is to complain and whine in a particularly annoying way.
carp definition: 1. a large fish that lives in lakes and rivers, or the meat of this fish 2. to complain continually…. Learn more.
