pockets

[pockĀ·et]

A pocket is a kind of pouch that's sewn into your clothes. If you are worried about your ink pen leaking in your shirt pocket, then you might spring for a pocket protector. Nice look!

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A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

Noun
a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

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

Noun
(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

Noun
a small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance"

Noun
a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

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Noun
a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers'' pockets"

Noun
a hollow concave shape made by removing something

Noun
(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike"

Noun
an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"

Verb
put in one''s pocket; "He pocketed the change"

Verb
take unlawfully


n.
A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

n.
One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.

n.
A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.

n.
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.

n.
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.

n.
A hole containing water.

n.
A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

n.
Same as Pouch.

v. t.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

v. t.
To take clandestinely or fraudulently.


Pocket

Pock"et , n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.] 1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. 2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. 3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. &hand; In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight. 4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. 5. (Mining.) (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. (b) A hole containing water. 6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. 7. (Zo'94l.) Same as Pouch. &hand; Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc. Out of pocket. See under Out, prep. -- Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under Borough. [Eng.] -- Pocket gopher (Zo'94l.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomyd'91. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also pouched gopher. -- Pocket mouse (Zo'94l.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyid'91. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys), and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc. -- Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent. -- Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket. -- Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. Burrill.

Pocket

Pock"et , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.] 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
He would pocket the expense of the license.
2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead.
To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. -- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." Shak.

A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

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Usage Examples

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

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Other Usage Examples

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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