Standard Lemma guide

turbofish

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • General-American: /ˈtɝboʊˌfɪʃ/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A syntactic element in Rust, ::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From turbo- + fish; coined by Anna Harren in 2015, originally in jest, later adopted by official documentation.