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Portmanteau

Portmanteau meaning

A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections. | A schoolbag. | A hook on which to hang clothing.

Example sentences (20)

It boasts the worst effects $130 million can buy, the kind usually reserved for TV movies whose portmanteau titles promise sharks dangerous cyclones of wind.

It seems there's a new portmanteau of an actor's name and the word "renaissance" cropping up all the time.

Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim (1740-1814) similarly sees the word as a portmanteau of the biliteral (“jumping”).

She became known as a “momager”, a portmanteau of the words “mom” and “manager”, for overseeing and managing her children’s lives and professional endeavours.

The unit, a portmanteau of CID and MI5, was set up to tackle terrorism and organised crime.

This trend of posting your child on social media has a name - "sharenting," a portmanteau of the words sharing and parenting.

What's more terrifying than a celebrity couple portmanteau?

In MilSim — a portmanteau for “military simulation” — first-person shooter games meet outdoor endurance events.

The ease and charm of their friendship is what makes so memorable—it would’ve been called a bromance so often if that portmanteau existed in 1996.

A clever portmanteau of Jeopardy and Jew beloved by bored Hebrew school students everywhere, Jewpardy is a makeshift gameshow that tests Jewish knowledge.

And yet, nothing before, or since—despite the best efforts of both From, and a whole host of imitators working in gaming’s latest awkward portmanteau, the Souls-like genre—has matched ’ breed of quietly confident genius.

Metroidvanias (a portmanteau of ) are very common as indie games but almost unknown when it comes to big budget 3D games.

Rappler — a portmanteau of “rap” and “ripple,” as in ripples of change — went live on Jan.

The burkini is a female swimsuit that completely covers the woman’s body, except the face, hands and feet – it is a portmanteau of the words ‘burqa’ and ‘bikini’.

It’s a portmanteau, and you don’t even have to know ‘karakuri (go figure)’ to work that one out.

Natalie Portmanteau: Re-read what they wrote.

Orá Trattorizza—which translates to “Now,” and a portmanteau of “trattoria” and “pizzeria”—plans a July 16 debut in Copley Square.

A Mobot competing in the annual Mobot challenge * Mobot – "Mobot,' a portmanteau for "mobile robot," is an annual competition at Carnegie Mellon that made its debut in 1994.

Another critique is aimed mainly at " algeny " (a portmanteau of alchemy and genetics), which Jeremy Rifkin defined as "the upgrading of existing organisms and the design of wholly new ones with the intent of 'perfecting' their performance".

A statite (a portmanteau of static and satellite) is a hypothetical type of artificial satellite that employs a solar sail to continuously modify its orbit in ways that gravity alone would not allow.