sleeve
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- noun
- /sliːv/
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- These sleeves seem to be the correct length.
- roll up sleeves
- long sleeves
- short sleeves
It's nice and beautiful, very romantic, but the sleeves just look so weird.
- It's nice and beautiful, very romantic, but the sleeves just look so weird.
- It has like these snaps up the sleeve, which they showed it kind of unsnapped.
- So it's a little money sign and on the sleeve it says monetize your art.
- You look into the blackness, put your head in the sleeve, put the sleeve over your head.
- You guys know, this is like my ideal kind of sleeve, like a great length bracelet length.
Examples
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She had these glorious, huge puff sleeves.
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Yeah, the sleeves are too long.
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So let's just take off the sleeve like that and open it up.
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I have compression sleeve on my right arm.
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Wear a long sleeve shirt and a red baseball cap.
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On her upper arm, the small white button closed the sleeve against the flesh.
Fiction book (1990) -
Rushing toward the officer, she grabbed him by the sleeve and pulled him away from the pickup.
Fiction book (1990) -
My right arm glides into its sleeve without outside help and without causing me to wince.
Academic text (1998) -
Protective clothing, such as long sleeves and trousers, should also be worn. Malarial symptoms
Academic text (2011) -
She wore a beautiful dress with long sleeves that flowed elegantly to her wrists.
Synonyms
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The part of a shirt or dress that covers the arm to the wrist
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A sleeve that goes from the shoulder to just above the elbow
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The part of a shirt that covers the arm
A sleeve with a very wide armhole and a tight wrist cuff that drapes over the upper arm
A sleeve that goes to the collar in one piece with a slanted seam from the armpit to the neck
Idioms
- Informal
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To show your feelings openly so other people can see them
- Offensive
To secretly find someone else's mistake funny without showing it
- Offensive
Feel secretly pleased and make fun of someone without showing it
Compounds
A sleeve with a very wide armhole and a tight wrist cuff that drapes over the upper arm
A sleeve that goes to the collar in one piece with a slanted seam from the armpit to the neck
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sleeve comes from an old word like slip meaning 'to slide', so picture sliding your arm into clothing; that's why a sleeve is the part that covers your arm.