Crossword-Solution: POACH 5 letters, 83 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Poach	v. & n.	To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
Poach	v. & n.	To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
Poach	v. i.	To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
Poach	v. t.	To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.
Poach	v. t.	To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
Poach	v. t.	To make soft or muddy by trampling
Poach	v. t.	To begin and not complete.
Poach	v. i.	To become soft or muddy.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
POACH	anagram	CHOPA, PHACO, PHOCA

We have 83 clues for the answer “POACH”

Clue	Answers
Hunt in the wrong place?	1 answer
Prepare eggs Benedict style	1 answer
Prepare eggs Benedict eggs	1 answer
One way to prepare an egg	1 answer
MAKE swampy	1 answer
Lure away, as a rival's employees	1 answer
KILL game illegally	1 answer
Illegally take game or fish from private or protected area	1 answer
Hunt on private property.	1 answer
Hunt in the wrong spot?	1 answer
Prepare, in a way, as eggs	1 answer
Hunt game illegally	1 answer
Fix an egg	1 answer
Fish illegally	1 answer
Filch game	1 answer
Eggs Benedict recipe word	1 answer
Crib or cook	1 answer
Cop game	1 answer
Cook, as an egg.	1 answer
Cook just below a boil	1 answer
Take fish illegally	1 answer
steal food	1 answer
catch (animals) illegally on someone else's land	1 answer
Word in an eggs Florentine recipe	1 answer
Way to cook eggs	1 answer
Cook gently in simmering water	1 answer
Trespass, as a hunter	1 answer
Take, as game of fish, illegally.	1 answer
Take what one oughtn't	1 answer
Take game illegally	1 answer
Cook in simmering liquid	1 answer
TRESPASS for game	1 answer
Steal or simmer	1 answer
Steal or do eggs	1 answer
Steal deer, e.g.	1 answer
Steal (game).	1 answer
Simmer, as eggs	1 answer
Simmer, as an egg	1 answer
Simmer or steal	1 answer
Rob the nest, or cook the contraband	1 answer
Cook in hot milk, say	1 answer
Cook in hot liquid	1 answer
Cook eggs in water	1 answer
Catch unlawfully	1 answer
Catch illegally	1 answer
CATCH game illegally	1 answer
Break a game rule?	1 answer
Boil lightly	1 answer
COOK in hot water	2 answers
Prepare an egg	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETAER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with POACH (5)

Brown but not too brown." "You don't think you'd like a poached egg on top of it?" "Exactly what I want!" "It isn't everybody that can poach an egg," said the restaurant man.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 2006

Korner to her bosom friend, “there isn't a kidney in the house.” “I should poach him a couple of eggs,” suggested the helpful bosom friend; “put plenty of Cayenne pepper on them.

Mrs. Korner Sins Her Mercies Jerome K. Jerome 1997

Grimes and his friends would have liked to poach; but then they must have got into cold water, and that they did not like at all.

The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 2019

And here, later, the Russians, with Alaskan hunters, carried skin boats across from Fort Ross to poach for sea-otters on the Spanish preserve of San Francisco Bay.

The Human Drift Jack London 2005

Whether the land of the valley was the joint property of its inhabitants, or whether it was parcelled out among a certain number of landed proprietors who allowed everybody to ‘squat’ and ‘poach’ as much as he or she pleased, I never could ascertain.

Typee Herman Melville 1999

Quotes with POACH (3)

Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding: The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off of theirs - the raft. That the sharks had taken shots at him when he had gone overboard, and when the raft had been mostly submerged after the strafing, had seemed fair enough. But their attempt to poach men from their reinflated raft struck Louie as dirty pool. He stewed all night, scowled hatefully at the shar…

Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, i…

John Vaillant The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.

Wylie Dufresne

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 76 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).