loach
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- noun
- /loʊtʃ/
- - Marv Loach.
Examples
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- Loach.
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I'll take loach...
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- Like a Ken Loach.
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Beef broth and loach soup are famous in this country.
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Loach.
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In the foyer, the kids are trying to get the loaches in the corporate tank to eat bits of styrofoam.
Fiction book (1992) -
My elementary school teachers never seemed to catch on and apparently believed I had really read books titled The Clown Loach, The Silver Dollars, The Iridescent Shark, and The Plecostemus, or Bottom-Sucker.
Fiction book (1992) -
Perennial director Ken Loach, most famous for his work in the 80s and 90s, returns to the screen with this dark comedy about some young Scots assigned to community service, who band together to pull off a heist of the world's most expensive whiskey, after being turned on to the fine details of the liquor during a group visit to a local distillery.
Blog text (14) -
Some cypriniform river loaches (genus Triplophysa) inhabit Tibetan hot springs at elevations of 5,200 meters (m).
Academic text (2010) -
The restaurant serves a delicious loach soup made from fresh local fish.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Loach comes from old Germanic words for a 'small river fish', so the name has long been used for the slender, bottom-dwelling freshwater fish that often hides among stones and mud in streams and rivers.