Meaning: Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (porpoise is a kind of...): dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of porpoise): harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)
12 Angry Men (1957). The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
October 29, 2009. Two jailers at the Logan County jail have been arrested on charges of raping a female inmate in her cell. Rahmel Jefferies and Alexander Mendez each face two counts of rape and two counts of sodomy. Court documents say both have admitted going into the woman's cell on Oct. 9 and having sex with her.