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The Clue
Prepares fish for cooking (4 letter answer)
The Answer
GIPS
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Notes
The answer GIPS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
GIP as a verb:
1. (victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con) = deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"