"touch cloth" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-touch cloth.ogg [Australia] Forms: touches cloth [present, singular, third-person], touching cloth [participle, present], touched cloth [participle, past], touched cloth [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} touch cloth (third-person singular simple present touches cloth, present participle touching cloth, simple past and past participle touched cloth)
  1. (intransitive, slang) To be just on the point of soiling oneself. Tags: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, intransitive, slang

Inflected forms

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