pollock

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
noun lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
noun important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok.

And I saw Guy Pollock. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
POLLOCK (Sir F.): Dartmoor and the Walkham. — Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts, Rosalind Northcote
W. H. Pollock's Jane Austen, etc., pp. — Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record, William Austen-Leigh

Jackson Pollock

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