Fish
Fish is table slang for a weak player, usually one who plays far too many hands and calls far more often than the price justifies.
The word is worth knowing and not worth using. It says nothing precise about how someone plays, and treating an opponent as a category rather than as a set of tendencies is how you miss the adjustment that actually pays.
The useful version is the specific one. Which hands do they call with, which streets do they give up on, and what price do they take, because those answers change your bet sizes and a nickname does not.
an example
your cards
A player has called a raise before the flop with jack four offsuit and called two more bets with bottom pair. The lesson is not the label, it is that against this opponent thin value bets get paid and bluffs mostly do not.
This example is made up. The real one is in your own hand history: find fish in your own hands and see how often it came up and what it cost you.
related terms
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VPIP
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Isolate
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Knowing the word is not the same as seeing it.
Forty hands against a bot, no account, and your own hand history at the end.