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Source: Portmanteau (disambiguation)

A portmanteau is a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms, e.g., smog from smoke and fog.
Portmanteau may also refer to:

Portmanteau (luggage), a case or bag to carry clothes in that usually opens into two equally sized compartments
Portmanteau (mail), a specialized mail bag
Portmanteau film, an anthology film made up of several short films that interrelate
Portmanteau inhibitor, in pharmaceuticals, a drug which molecularly combines the active portions of two inhibitor-class drugs
Portmanteau sentence, in linguistics, a particular type of code-switching
Portmanteau test, in statistics, a test applied to autocorrelations of a time series
Portmanteau theorem on convergence of measures in probability theory
A coat rack, from the French porter (carry) and manteau (cloak)