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Pocket

noun

A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles.

An enclosed space. Synonyms: pouch, sac, sack.

A supply of money.

(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left.

A hollow concave shape made by removing something. Synonym: scoop.

A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly. Synonyms: air hole, air pocket.

A small isolated group of people. "The battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance"

(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican). Synonym: pouch.

An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck.

verb

(past & past part. pocketed; pres. part. pocketing)

Put in one's pocket.

Take unlawfully. Synonym: bag.

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"Pocket" Quotes from Famous Books

... Nothing she liked better than to play the part of Lady Bountiful, especially when any effort involved was shifted onto the shoulders of another, and in her careless fashion she was really anxious to do this nice girl a good turn. She made a note of Claire's address in a dainty gold-edged pocket-book, expressed pleasure in the belief that through her friend she would hear reports of the girl's progress, and presently shut her eyes, and dozed peacefully for the ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... side, presented him with a letter, and then retired with so much precipitation, that Horatio could neither ask from whom it came, nor well discern what sort of person it was that gave it him. He put it however in his pocket, designing to read it at more leisure, his curiosity for the contents not equalling his desire of entertaining mademoiselle Charlotta; but that young lady, whose jealousy received new fewel from this ...

— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood

... shooting apparel. Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty robe de chambre of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief. The general effect was that of a gigantic mushroom carrying a heavy gun, and wearing a huge ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... went up to the pail. He took out of his pocket a little green glass of an ikon lamp, wiped it with a rag, filled it from the pail and drank from it, then filled it again, wrapped the little glass in the rag, and then put it back ...

— The Bishop and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... briefly introducing the particular problem with which I was occupied. I took it for granted that a question from such a specialized branch of physics would not be of much interest to him. Judge of my astonishment when he at once took out of his pocket a note-book and a huge carpenter's pencil, made a sketch and proceeded to speak of the problem as one fully conversant with it, and in such a way that he gave me the starting point for an entirely new conception of electricity. It was instantly borne in ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

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