Home › Words › T › tarpontarpontarpon means any of several fishes of the family Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish.EtymologyCompare Dutch tarpoen. Suggestions that the term derives from a Native American term are unlikely.nounAny of several fishes of the family Elopidae or Megalopidae, especially a large silvery game fish.e.g.“You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--” — 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).