catfish

IPA: kˈætfɪʃ

Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
(Internet) Someone who creates a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
(Internet) Such a fake profile.

To fish for catfish.
(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).

Examples of "catfish" in Sentences

Shouldering that catfish is almost more impressive than catching it in the first place.
I've never had walleye, so I am not qualified to say that catfish is absolutely the best of any fried fish.
In the episode, law-enforcement officers use a gadget they called a "catfish" to track cellphones without a court order.
Catching the daddy catfish is fun, but we have a couple baby catfish that we want to raise, and one is to small to eat the minnows we put in there.
Also, I know you disdain catfish, but there's certainly a subset of guys who are hard-core and pretty cultish about catching monster blues and flatheads.
Much of that 'catfish' in Mississippi is secretly Basa fish from China these days, especially on the buffets at the casinos along the Gulf Coast, were they don't have to call it catfish (which they aren't supposed to do) but just let people assume it is.