fleecenoun [ C or U ]
uk/fliːs/us/fliːs/the thick covering of wool on a sheep, or this covering used to make a piece of clothing:
My jacket is lined with fleece/is fleece-lined.
a type of warm soft material, or a jacket made from this
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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
- -haired
- alpaca
- coat
- coated
- coney
- cony
- dander
- hairless
- hairy
- ivory
- mink
- plumage
- plumule
- prickle
- quill
- spinneret
- vellum
- whisker
- wire-haired
- wool
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Textiles made from natural fibres
fleeceverb [ T ]
uk/fliːs/us/fliːs/informalto take someone's money dishonestly, by charging too much money or by cheating them:
That restaurant really fleeced us!
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
- worm
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