pocket
pockets; pocketed; pocketing
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!
You can keep things like your keys in a pocket, or you can use your pockets to keep your hands warm. Jackets and jeans have pockets, and so do kangaroos and pool tables. In the case of kangaroos, it's a handy pouch in a mother's belly where she can keep a baby kangaroo warm and comfortable. And when you shoot pool, you aim for the pockets. As a verb, pocket can literally mean "put into your pocket," or more figuratively, "steal money." To be "in someone's pocket" is to be under their control or influence.
Definitions of pocket
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a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
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breast pocket
a pocket inside of a man's coat
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hip pocket
a pocket in rear of trousers
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patch pocket
a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment
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slash pocket
a pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment
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vest pocket
a small pocket in a man's vest
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fob, watch pocket
a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
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pouch
a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
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(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
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pouch
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gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus
thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
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utricle, utriculus
a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open
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atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii
a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart
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auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix
a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart
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cheek pouch
a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher)
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marsupium
an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled
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scrotum
the external pouch that contains the testes
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sac
a structure resembling a bag in an animal
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a supply of money“they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets”
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cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource
assets in the form of money
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cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource
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put in one's pocket“He pocketed the change”
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take
take into one's possession
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take
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take unlawfully
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an enclosed space“the trapped miners found a pocket of air”
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cavity, enclosed space
space that is surrounded by something
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cavity, enclosed space
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a hollow concave shape made by removing something
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scoop
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concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
a shape that curves or bends inward
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concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
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a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
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air hole, air pocket
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atmospheric phenomenon
a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
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atmospheric phenomenon
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(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left“the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike”
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space
an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
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space
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an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
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corner pocket
a pocket at the corner of a billiard table
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side pocket
a pocket on the side of a billiard table
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corner pocket
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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”
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people
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
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people
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a protected area from which a quarterback throws a football
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