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fish, patois, non-straight, and meaning conjecture - JonTom - 05-30-2016 For quite some time I've understood the term "fish" in JA to be used to reference a gay person. It is used in lyrics, there was the dust up in parliament a year or so ago (though it may have been am oblique reference and not directly "fish"), and I've heard it used in person in JA. My last trip, I was in a discussion about the Marlon James book (the JA author now living in the US who is gay) and the JA person said something like "oh yeah, him funny" and did the little zig-zag movement with his hands that I think universally one understands to signify a fish swimming. At the time I just thought, yeah he's calling him a "fish", but later I realized a swimming fish movement is not a straight line (easy OT, I just mean in general), so maybe Jamaicans use "fish" to mean "not straight", i.e. gay? TLDR: does JA use "fish" to mean gay because fish movement is zig-zag, i.e. "not straight"? RE: fish, patois, non-straight, and meaning conjecture - oldtimer - 05-30-2016 hehehe !!!