(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.
Example Sentences:
(1) A soft Conran leather blouson jacket teamed with very tight trousers, for instance, is a reminder of the way that young men circa 1986 used to billow out at the top like pouter pigeons before tapering to the tiniest of snake hips.
(2) Type II (pouter pigeon breast) is handled by double transverse osteotomy, chiseling off the protuberant portion of the strernomanuberial junction, and by supporting the lower sternal body with either the suspended xiphoid process or with Marlex mesh.