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sleevelike

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sleeve

[sleev] noun, verb, sleeved, sleev⋅ing.
–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.
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


sleevelike, adjective
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