1 a part of a piece of clothing that covers all or part of your arm:
a dress with short / long sleeves * Dan rolled up his sleeves and washed his hands.
seealsoSHIRTSLEEVE
2 (-sleeved) (in adjectives) having sleeves of the type mentioned:
a short-sleeved shirt
3 (also jacket especially in AmE) a stiff paper or cardboard envelope for a record:
a colourful sleeve design * sleeve notes (= information about the music or the performers on the record)
4 a tube that covers a part of a machine to protect it
sleeveless adjective:
a sleeveless dress
IDIOMS
have / keep sth up your sleeve to keep a plan or an idea secret until you need to use it:
Actually I do have a few ideas up my sleeve.
moreatACEn., CARDn., LAUGHv., ROLLv., TRICKn., WEARv.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sleeve is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sleeve a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sleeve is tagged as noun.
Does sleeve appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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