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    [Verb]  | "poach" | \ ˈpōch \


    1: to cook in simmering liquid

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English pocchen, from Middle French pocher, from Old French poché poached, literally, bagged, from poche bag, pocket {mat|pouch|};

    [Verb]  | "poach" 


    1: to encroach upon especially for the purpose of taking something

    2: to trespass for the purpose of stealing game; also : to take game or fish illegally

    3: to trespass on

    Origin: 1611 ;

     Middle French pocher, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English poken to poke;

    [Idiom]  | "poach on someone's territory/turf" 


    1: to do something that someone else should do : to interfere in an area that another person usually controls

    [Verb]  | "poach" 


    1: to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam;


      * e.g., " ... poaching fish in a stock flavored with white wine "



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     [ "poach" ]

    1: To steal another man's girl.

      * e.g.,  ... Don poached my girl, so now they're going out and I'm single. 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: Where, within a commission sales environment, a commission sales person steps into a sale OR takes the sale from a non-commission paid employee, thus recieving all commission credit from the sale.

      * e.g.,  ... "Will Doo, i'm poaching the deal on that fuck'n big screen you assclown! Oh, by the way, what's your sister doing this weekend?" 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: To take a coworker's lunch from the communal refrigerator.

      * e.g.,  ... That little shit-weasel Raymond better not poach my fucking tuna sandwich again. 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: In snowboarding terms, sneaking up the chair lift without a ticket or pass.

      * e.g.,  ... "Tickets are too expensive, I'd rather poach the lifts or hike the park." 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: Snowboarding term: to board in fresh, untouched powder.

      * e.g.,  ... Yo Phat Man! I be poachin' duh pow-Der while you jiss ridin' duh chair. 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: Taking something that simply is not yours. Usually for a limited time only, like

      * e.g.,  ... "Yo, I'll be in Orlando this weekend, can I poach your couch?" 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: to borrow with no intent of returning usually a small insignificatn item such as a cig or small coin

      * e.g.,  ... can I poach a smoke? 

     [ "poach" ]

    1: Actually this term was defined when my friend left his hamburger on the table and left the room while we were watching a show on Poaching. I then took it, bit it, and said hah poached. From then on it expanded.

      * e.g.,  ... If you had a great meal you were poaching. If you stole a seat,girl,meal, whatever, you poached it.If you planned on going to relax then you were going to poach. The term quickly spread through my friends who then moved out of NY spreading it even faster. This was over 11 yrs ago. 

     [ "Poach" ]

    1: To hire a worker away from a competitor

      * e.g.,  ... Wow, ABC research firm just poached our best programmer. 

     [ "Poach" ]

    1: Poach/ing/in'

      * e.g.,  ... Yo, lets hit up the pool for some cheeky late night poachin'! 

     [ "Poach" ]

    2: To flirt or hit on someone.

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