Definition of "filleted" [filleted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of fillet. (verb)

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• "You've had a whole bit of you removed, and so it's small wonder you're feeling hammered - or, as my father used to say "filleted" - now you're back home, on several levels, mental, emotional and physical."
• "Then life dealt its first lesson with the kind of disappointment that leaves you feeling like a filleted fish."
• "Focusing now, rising from his makeshift seat, Jon could see that he was pummeling the intact head of a large filleted fish, probably a bluefish or a striped bass, that had washed up with the incoming tide."