Bloater can refer to:
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Bloater (herring)
Bloaters are a type of whole cold- smoked herring. Bloaters are "salted and lightly smoked without gutting, giving a characteristic slightly gamey flavour" and are particularly associated with Great Yarmouth, England. Popular in the 19th and ear ...
, a term for herring that is smoked whole;
**The
Yarmouth Bloaters
The Yarmouth Bloaters were a motorcycle speedway team who operated from Yarmouth Stadium in Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth, from 1948 to 1962.
History
In January 1948 the Speedway Control Board considered licence applications from 17 n ...
, a defunct motorcycle team named for the herring;
**
Great Yarmouth Town F.C. commonly known by the nickname The Bloaters;
* ''
Coregonus hoyi
''Coregonus hoyi'', also known as the bloater, is a species or form of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is a silvery-coloured herring-like fish, long. It is found in most of the Great Lakes and in Lake Nipigon, and inhabits und ...
'', a freshwater whitefish from the Great Lakes;
**Several related species of
cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, s ...
from the Great Lakes, such as the kiyi
* A zombie-like enemy in ''
The Last of Us
''The Last of Us'' is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie, across a post-apocalyptic United States ...
'' video game, in which it is the fourth and most dangerous stage of the
Cordyceps
''Cordyceps'' is a genus of ascomycete fungi (sac fungi) that includes over 260 species worldwide, many of which are parasitic. Diverse variants of cordyceps have had more than 1,500 years of use in Chinese medicine. Most ''Cordyceps'' specie ...
infection.
* ''The Bloater'', a 1968 novel by
Rosemary Tonks
Rosemary Tonks (17 October 1928 – 15 April 2014) was an English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, six novels, and pieces in numerous media outlets, she disappeared from the public eye following her conversion to Fundamen ...
* A "freak" zombie from the ''
State of Decay'' video game series.
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