Definition of "pilot-fish" []

• A pelagic carangoid fish, Naucrates ductor, found in all warm seas, and occasionally on the Atlantic coast of the United States. (noun)
• Plural A term extended to all the Carangidæ. (noun)
• A remora or sucking-fish of the family Echeneididæ, as Echeneis naucrates. (noun)
• A coregonid. Coregonus guadrilateralis, the Menomonee white-fish or shad-waiter of New England, some of the Great Lakes, and parts of British America to Alaska. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As a day trader, he gambled on abstractions, riding, pilot-fish style, the tiny gyrations of companies whose products he had no hand in producing."
• "Why can't you do your job on your own instead of following me about like pilot-fish hanging on for the pickings?"
• "As the Javelin began to settle complacently into the outermost reaches of the atmosphere of that abandoned, incredibly rich planet, the smooth, blown-steel, pilot-fish shapes of the blind little ships came raining down around her out of the blackness, spitting needles of white fire."