sleeve Definition

sleeve
noun

1. The part of a garment that covers the arm.
2. Any tube-like cover.
3. engineering.
A tube, especially of a different metal, fitted inside a metal cylinder or tube, either as protection or to decrease the diameter.
4. The cardboard or paper envelope in which a record (noun 4) is stored.
5. A windsock.

Derivative: sleeveless
adj

Having no sleeves.
Example: a sleeveless dress

Idiom: laugh up one's sleeve

To laugh privately or secretly.

Idiom: roll up one's sleeves

To prepare oneself for a task, especially an unpleasant manual one.

Idiom: up one's sleeve

In secret reserve, possibly for later use.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon slefe.