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Lizzy in addition wants fish chucked out (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bess

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'out' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
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(Other definitions for bess that I've seen before include "Our Good Queen" , "Black - was Dick Turpin's horse" , "Queen Elizabeth 1 (sl)" , "Nickname for English queen" , "Elizabeth (dim.)" .)

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