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plural pooches
(slang) A dog. quotations
My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get off the front of the train. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open.
2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58
A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel. examples
countable and uncountable, plural pooches
(countable) A bulge, an enlarged part. examples
A distended or swelled condition. examples
third-person singular simple present pooches, present participle pooching, simple past and past participle pooched
To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out. quotations examples
There were rustling sounds from the tent and the sides pooched out as if they were trying to stand up.
1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 21, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 124