pouch

A small bag or pocket used to hold or carry things.

• She keeps coins in a pouch.
• He attached a small pouch to his belt.
• The travel pouches have separate sections for cables.

Similar words: bag, pocket

Common phrases: leather pouch, coin pouch, pouch of something

A pocket in an animal’s body where it carries its babies or stores food.

• The baby kangaroo climbed into its mother’s pouch.
• Hamsters store food in their cheek pouches.
• The joey peered out of the pouch.

Similar words: marsupium

Common phrases: kangaroo pouch, cheek pouch, inside the pouch

A small bag that usually closes when you pull a string around its opening.

• The beads came in a velvet pouch.
• Pull the string to close the pouch.
• She sold small pouches for storing jewelry.

Similar words: drawstring bag

Common phrases: drawstring pouch, velvet pouch, pouch of coins

To put something into a small bag or pocket.

• She pouched the seeds for later.
• He carefully pouched the loose coins.
• They pouched the samples before leaving the field.

Similar words: bag, pocket

Common phrases: pouch the seeds, pouch the coins, pouch a coin, pouch the samples

To stick out in a loose, rounded shape like a small bag.

• The fabric began to pouch near the seam.
• His old trousers pouched at the knees.
• The loose material pouches outward when you sit.

Similar words: bulge, bag

Common phrases: pouch at knees, pouch outward

To send something in an official sealed bag, especially between a government and its offices abroad.

• They pouched the documents to the embassy.
• The device was pouched to our office abroad.
• Can these papers be pouched tomorrow?

How to use it: pouch something to someone/somewhere (The ministry pouched the papers to its embassy.)

Similar words: dispatch, send

Common phrases: pouch something to, pouch official documents