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From sweet +‎ lips.

sweetlips (plural sweetlips)

Any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips.
- 2007 May 27, Lynn Waddell, “That Grouper on the Menu? Turns Out It Was a Fish Tale”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  Kenny Gamble, Dockside Dave’s manager and chef, has often heard the question since a Florida attorney general’s investigation revealed this year that 17 of 24 other restaurants in and around Tampa Bay were passing off cheaper imported fish — tilapia, bream, hake, sutchi, emperor, green weakfish, painted sweetlips — as grouper.

any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips