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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fillet .
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Examples
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You've had a whole bit of you removed, and so it's small wonder you're feeling hammered - or, as my father used to say "filleted" - now you're back home, on several levels, mental, emotional and physical.
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My job was to clean the catfish as dad filleted and scored the buffalo.
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Stamos' character showed up dead, filleted like a fish by a scuba diving knife.
Annie Stamell: John Stamos Showcases His Sleazy Side in Law & Order: SVU Annie Stamell 2011
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Sign that the Super Bowl has jumped the shark, then turned back and filleted and grilled it: Art nerds are wagering valuable works on it.
Super Bowl XLV oddities: Art guys talk smack, a lucky white blood cell Cindy Boren 2011
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Stamos' character showed up dead, filleted like a fish by a scuba diving knife.
Annie Stamell: John Stamos Showcases His Sleazy Side in Law & Order: SVU Annie Stamell 2011
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Compiled by Unruly Media and filleted by Josh1 Bully cat stuffs feline friend in boxClassic.
Guardian Viral Video Chart: Hurricane Irene's flash floods and boxing cats 2011
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Then life dealt its first lesson with the kind of disappointment that leaves you feeling like a filleted fish.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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My job was to clean the catfish as dad filleted and scored the buffalo.
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Focusing now, rising from his makeshift seat, Jon could see that he was pummeling the intact head of a large filleted fish, probably a bluefish or a striped bass, that had washed up with the incoming tide.
Working Title: "Third Persons" Glenn Klopfenstein 2011
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The reminder of all that has gone bad here is ever-present and visceral: Rotting tuna, squid, bonito and bream—some whole or cleaned, some filleted and wrapped in plastic by the town's plants—dot the landscape.
Fishing Town Suffers, Caught in Waves' Wake Eric Bellman 2011
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