crappie U.S.
(ˈkræpɪ)
Also crappé, croppie.
A species of sunfish, Pomoxys annularis, found in the Mississippi and its tributaries.
| 1861 G. F. Berkeley Sportsm. W. Prairies iii. 41 A fish they call the crappeè. Ibid. xxii. 363 The crappé..very like our fresh-water bream. 1889 Farmer Dict. Amer., Croppie. |