A small bag or case for carrying small items.

• A secure bag for official mail, as a diplomatic pouch.

The abdominal pocket in a marsupial that carries its young.

• A pocketlike structure in an animal, such as a cheek pouch.

A sac or cystlike cavity in the body.

• A surgically created reservoir, as an ileal pouch.

A protruding belly; a paunch.

To place or enclose in a pouch.

• To send by diplomatic pouch.
• To pocket or quietly take.