Mutton Snapper (Noun)
Meaning
Similar to and often marketed as `red snapper'.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Mutton snapper is often purchased in place of the more expensive and harder to find red snapper.
- The chef admitted that the restaurant served mutton snapper and not actual red snapper to the customers.
- Environmentalists claim that overfishing of the mutton snapper has become more common since it can be sold as red snapper.
- Regulations were put in place to stop stores from selling mutton snapper as if it were red snapper at the higher price point.
- Mutton snapper with its reddish color is deceptively often sold in markets as red snapper at inflated prices.