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Crossword-Solution: EEL 3 letters, 1325 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

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Eel n. An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels
of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel
is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute
nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

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EEL anagram ELE, LEE

We have 1325 clues for the answer “EEL”

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"An ___ held by the tail is not yet caught" (old proverb) 1 answer
"Charming as an __" (what the Grinch is called) 1 answer
"Electric" swimmer, perhaps 1 answer
"Holds the ___ of science by the tail."—Pope. 1 answer
"Jellied" British dish 1 answer
"Ooh girl, shock me like an electric ___ / Baby girl, turn me on with your electric feel" (MGMT lyric) 1 answer
"Shock me like an electric ___" (MGMT lyric) 1 answer
"Shock me like an electric ___": MGMT 1 answer
"Shrieking" sea creature in "The Princess Bride" 1 answer
"Slippery" swimmer 1 answer
"This ___ has been this shrimp's AA sponsor for three years" (one of the Onion's "8 Unlikely Animal Friendships") 1 answer
"Yet you balanced an ___ on the end of your nose . . . " 1 answer
"You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an ___, Mr. Grinch" 1 answer
'Sea Hunt' shocker 1 answer
...that may include this 1 answer
1997 Koji Yakusho film, with "The" 1 answer
Slippery fish often found in sushi 1 answer
Slippery underwater dweller 1 answer
Snake-like swimmer of the seas 1 answer
A length of fish. 1 answer
A pelican gulper is a type of one 1 answer
A sniggler snares it 1 answer
A sniggler's a giggler when he snares it 1 answer
Adult elver 1 answer
Adult grig 1 answer
Amazon hunter 1 answer
Amazon hunter in packs 1 answer
Amazon user 1 answer
Amazon zapper 1 answer
Amazonian shocker 1 answer
Amazonian underwater shocker 1 answer
An apodan 1 answer
Anago is the saltwater kind of it 1 answer
Anago or unagi 1 answer
Anago or unagi, to a sushi chef 1 answer
Anago, in Japanese cuisine 1 answer
Anago, in a certain bar 1 answer
Anago, on a Japanese menu 1 answer
Anago, really 1 answer
Anguiform fish. 1 answer
Anguilla rostrata 1 answer
Anguilla, on some trattoria menus 1 answer
Anguilla. 1 answer
Anguillid 1 answer
Anguillidqae 1 answer
Anguilliform animal 1 answer
Anguilliform creature 1 answer
Anguilliform one 1 answer
Anguilliform swimmer 1 answer
Anguilliformes swimmer 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with EEL (5)

The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, especially if they could procure an eel-skin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
But even as they were in the act of falling, Marcus, like a very eel, writhed in the dentist's clasp and fell upon his side.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
What the engro found the most difficult was to get a firm hold of the chal, for no sooner did he seize the chal by any part of his wearing apparel, than the chal either tore himself away, or contrived to slip out of it; so that in a little time the chal was three parts naked; and as for holding him by the body, it was out of the question, for he was as slippery as an eel.
Lavengro George Borrow 2006
The Frogs were much pleased and a good deal frightened when King Eel came wriggling and swimming among them.
Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant 1996
With tears streaming down his cheeks, he said: “How much better it would have been for me to go to school! I did listen to my playmates and now I am paying for it! Oh! Oh! Oh!” And as he struggled and squirmed like an eel to escape from him, the Green Fisherman took a stout cord and tied him hand and foot, and threw him into the bottom of the tub with the others.
The Adventures of Pinocchio C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini 2006

Quotes with EEL (3)

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)
Cassandra Clare City of Bones
Sion calls Anne an eel, he calls her a slippery dipper from the slime, and he remembers what the cardinal had called her: my serpentine enemy. Sion says, she goes to it with her brother; he says, what, her brother George? ‘Any brother she's got. Those kind keep it in the family. They do filthy French tricks, like — ’‘Can you keep your voice down?’ He looks around, as if spies might be swimming by the boat.‘ — and that's how she trusts herself she don't give in to Henry, becau…
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live... when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that... well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory... by spitting.
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
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Used 2,759 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).