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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

... outside the law, existing outside the law, and having for its purpose the performance of those things and only those things which the law says cannot be performed legally. Imagine our law-makers gravely meeting to make laws for the control and regulation of the pick-pocket or burglar or counterfeiting industry, or endeavoring to prescribe legally the times, places, and amounts of national bank defalcations, or the kind of ink, paper, and pens which must be used by forgers in the pursuit of ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... a sudden the wind came with a blast loud enough for the last trump, and the waves roared till they were hoarser than ever; away went the vessel's mast, although there was no more canvas on it than a jib pocket-handkerchief, and the craft rolled and tossed in the deep troughs for all the world like a wicked man dying in despair; and then she was a wreck, with nothing to help us but God Almighty, fast borne down upon the sands which the waters had ...

— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... the like of me, lady, you may be sure that money never comes amiss; but that is not my errand. Here is what will make all clear;" and, as he spoke, he thrust his hand into the huge pocket within the horseman's cloak which enveloped him. Instead of the pistol or dag, which Paulina anticipated, he drew forth a large packet, carefully sealed. Paulina felt so much relieved at beholding this pledge of the man's ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... Duke, producing a coin from his pocket, "this may help to console you should my touch fail to produce the desired effect." The woman on this immediately retired, telling all those present that she felt sure she should ...

— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston

... I said, "attach too much importance to the score. When you try for a cannon off the white and hit it on the wrong side and send it into a pocket, and your own ball travels on and makes a losing hazard off the red, instead ...

— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome

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