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pouch
[ pouch ]
noun
- a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:
a tobacco pouch.
- a small moneybag.
- a bag for carrying mail.
- a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
- something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
- Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.
- a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
- Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
- Botany. a baglike cavity.
verb (used with object)
- to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
- to arrange in the form of a pouch.
- (of a fish or bird) to swallow.
verb (used without object)
- to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.
pouch
/ 貹ʊʃ /
noun
- a small flexible baglike container
a tobacco pouch
- a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents
- anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part
- another word for mailbag
- a Scot word for pocket
verb
- tr to place in or as if in a pouch
- to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form
- tr (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow
Derived Forms
- ˈdzܳ, adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
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Example Sentences
One method advocated by some schools included magnetically locked mobile phone pouches which cannot be accessed until the end of the school day.
His gumbo recipe, for example, calls for two pouches each of smoked clams, oysters and mackerel along with white rice, oregano, cumin and chile peppers.
Yondr makes a locking pouch that for years has been used at entertainment events to sequester cellphones and now is being deployed at hundreds of L.A.
Others find decoys to place in their pouches, pocketing their real devices for surreptitious use throughout the school day.
“It would be beautiful,” she said, plucking more leaves into her pouch.
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