Cryptic crossword clue
Take game or fish for cook 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word POACH

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What does POACH mean?

POACH noun
  1. The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
POACH verb
  1. To cook something in simmering liquid.
  2. To be cooked in simmering liquid
  3. To become soft or muddy.
  4. To make soft or muddy.
  5. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
  6. To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
  7. To begin and not complete.
POACH noun
  1. The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.
POACH verb
  1. To take game or fish illegally.
  2. To take anything illegally or unfairly.
  3. To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.

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