Bloater can refer to:
*
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 ea ...
, a term for herring that is smoked whole;
**The
Yarmouth Bloaters, a defunct motorcycle team named for the herring;
**
Great Yarmouth Town F.C.
Great Yarmouth Town Football Club is a football club based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Wellesley Recreation Ground, whose grandstand is believed to be the world's oldest football stan ...
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., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
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 about 600 species. Most ''Cordyceps'' species are endoparasitoids, parasitic mainly on insects and other arthropods (they are thus entomopathogenic fungi); a few are parasiti ...
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 after her conversion to Fundamentali ...
* A "freak" zombie from the ''
State of Decay'' video game series.
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