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sleeve

  [sleev] noun, verb, sleeved, sleev⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the part of a garment that covers the arm, varying in form and length but commonly tubular.
2. an envelope, usually of paper, for protecting a phonograph record.
3. Machinery. a tubular piece, as of metal, fitting over a rod or the like.
–verb (used with object)
4. to furnish with sleeves.
5. Machinery. to fit with a sleeve; join or fasten by means of a sleeve.
—Idioms
6. have something up one's sleeve, to have a secret plan, scheme, opinion, or the like: I could tell by her sly look that she had something up her sleeve.
7. laugh up or in one's sleeve, to be secretly amused or contemptuous; laugh inwardly: to laugh up one's sleeve at someone's affectations.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME sleve, OE slēfe (Anglian), slīefe; akin to D sloof apron

Related forms:
sleevelike, adjective
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sleeve   (slēv)   
n.  

  1. A part of a garment that covers all or part of an arm.

  2. A case into which an object or device fits: a record sleeve.

tr.v.   sleeved, sleev·ing, sleeves
To furnish or fit with sleeves or a sleeve.

[Middle English sleve, from Old English slēf; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.]
sleeve'less adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sleeve 
O.E. sliefe (W.Saxon), slefe (Mercian), from P.Gmc. *slaubjon (cf. M.L.G. sloven "to dress carelessly," O.H.G. sloufen "to put on or off"). Related to O.E. sliefan "put on (clothes)" and slupan "to slip, glide," from PIE base *sleubh- "to slide, slip." (cf. expression to slip into "to dress in"). Mechanical sense is attested from 1864. To have something up one's sleeve is recorded from c.1500; to laugh in (or up) one's sleeve is from 1560. Meaning "the English Channel" translates Fr. La Manche.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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