plural pooches
informal
: dog
a cute pooch
Before the abusive letters pour in …, may I state that I am very fond of dogs. Loyal, obedient, housetrained pooches are a pleasure to rub noses with.—
Romany Bain
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Phrases
screw the pooch
US slang
: to botch an activity or undertaking : screw up
He's a little cocky, but he's not about to screw the pooch.—Douglas M. Bailey
Douglas M. BaileySuch is life. Sometimes you score big, and sometimes you screw the pooch.—Greg Jerrett
Greg JerrettExamples of pooch in a Sentence
Noun
What a cute little pooch!
walking down the street with several pooches on leashes
Verb
his lower lip pooched out in disappointment
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Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Grampy and pooch Pudgy (a marvelous puppet, mastered by Philip Huber) are transported to the New York present to bring her back.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
Officer Jenny Driscoll, another 10-year veteran of the NYPD, said the drenched pooch was visibly glad to be in the rescue boat.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
But even as rescuers have tried to bring her to safety, so far, the scrappy pooch has eluded capture.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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Noun
After Goldberg gave Howard an introduction while clutching a cat, the camera cut to the Jurassic World star walking out from backstage with six-month-old Aladdin on a leash, though the pooch pulled back before making it out toward the panelists.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Grampy and pooch Pudgy (a marvelous puppet, mastered by Philip Huber) are transported to the New York present to bring her back.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
Officer Jenny Driscoll, another 10-year veteran of the NYPD, said the drenched pooch was visibly glad to be in the rescue boat.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
But even as rescuers have tried to bring her to safety, so far, the scrappy pooch has eluded capture.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Pooch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pooch. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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