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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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pouch1
Example Sentences
Littleton recently facilitated negotiations between some 200 workers and their employer, which manufactures plastic pouches used to dispense IV infusions in medical facilities.
Since September, in a move designed to reduce bullying and students' stress levels, the school has required pupils to lock away their devices in pouches during the day.
Enter: Brooklyn Delhi’s heat-and-eat pouches of beans simmered in Indian sauces.
He allows audience members to film him throughout his performance, a rarity in comedy when locking your phone away in a pouch has become the norm for high-profile comedians.
One method advocated by some schools included magnetically locked mobile phone pouches which cannot be accessed until the end of the school day.
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