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  • 101couch grass — Quitch grass Quitch grass (kw[i^]ch gr[.a]s ). [Properly quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See {Quick}, and cf. {Couch grass}.] (Bot.) A perennial grass ({Agropyrum repens}) having long… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 102Couch (court-métrage) — Court métrage réalisé par Paul Thomas Anderson. Il s agit d un court métrage de 2 minutes avec Adam Sandler tourné en noir et blanc. Il a fait l objet d une distribution via internet en 2003. Tournage Le tournage a eu lieu à Chatsworth en… …

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  • 103couch grass — /kowch, koohch/ any of various grasses, esp. Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly. Also called quitch. [1570 80; couch, var. of QUITCH] * * * or quack grass Rapidly… …

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  • 104Couch — Koush, Kouch ou Couch (pays de), nom donné par les anciens égyptiens à la partie méridionale de la Nubie, dans l actuel Soudan central. Le royaume de (ou du) Koush avait une religion et une administration calquées sur celles de l égypte: le dieu… …

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  • 105couch — Synonyms and related words: analysis, bear down, bed, bed down, bedstead, bring low, bunk, burrow, cave, conceive, couch in terms, covert, crawl, creep, crouch, curl up, debase, den, depress, depth interview, depth psychology, detrude, divan,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 106couch — couch1 [kautʃ] n plural couches [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: couche, from coucher to lie , from Latin collocare to put in place ; COLLOCATE] 1.) a comfortable piece of furniture big enough for two or three people to sit on = ↑sofa, settee… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 107couch — couch1 [ kautʃ ] noun count 1. ) a long low comfortable seat that two or three people can sit on: SOFA 2. ) a long piece of furniture like a bed that someone lies on while talking about their mental problems with a PSYCHIATRIST couch couch 2 [… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 108couch — To hang out, sit around, do nothing, wait on the couch. It was too cold outside wo we decided to to just couch all day …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 109couch — To hang out, sit around, do nothing, wait on the couch. It was too cold outside wo we decided to to just couch all day …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 110couch\ case — noun slang informal A person judged emotionally so disturbed that people think he ought to see a psychiatrist (who, habitually, make their patients lie down on a couch). Joe s divorce messed him up so badly that he became a couch case …

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