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pock·et (p

1. A small baglike attachment forming part of a garment and used to carry small articles, as a flat pouch sewn inside a pair of pants or a piece of material sewn on its sides and bottom to the outside of a shirt.

2. A small sack or bag.

3. A receptacle, cavity, or opening.

4. Financial means; money supply: The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.

a. A small cavity in the earth, especially one containing ore.

b. A small body or accumulation of ore.

6. A pouch in an animal body, such as the cheek pouch of a rodent or the abdominal pouch of a marsupial.

7. Games One of the pouchlike receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiard or pool table.

8. Baseball The deepest part of a baseball glove, just below the web, where the ball is normally caught.

9. Sports A racing position in which a contestant has no room to pass a group of contestants immediately to his or her front or side.

10.

a. A small, isolated, or protected area or group: pockets of dissatisfied voters.

b. Football The area a few yards behind the line of scrimmage that blockers attempt to keep clear so that the quarterback can pass the ball.

11. An air pocket.

12. A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.

adj.

1. Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket: a pocket handkerchief; a pocket edition of a dictionary.

2. Small; miniature: a pocket backyard; a pocket museum.

tr.v. pock·et·ed, pock·et·ing, pock·ets

1. To place in or as if in a pocket.

2. To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly: pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.

a. To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).

b. To conceal or suppress: I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.

4. To prevent (a bill) from becoming law by failing to sign until the adjournment of the legislature.

5. Sports To hem in (a competitor) in a race.

6. Games To hit (a ball) into a pocket of a pool or billiard table.

Idioms:

in (one's) pocket

In one's power, influence, or possession: The defendant had the jury in his pocket.

in pocket

1. Having funds.

2. Having gained or retained funds of a specified amount: was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.

[Middle English, pouch, small bag, from Anglo-Norman pokete, diminutive of Old North French poke, bag, of Germanic origin.]

pocket·a·ble adj.

pocket·less adj.

pocket

Noun

1. a small pouch sewn into clothing for carrying small articles

2. any pouchlike container, esp. for catching balls at the edge of a snooker table

3. a small isolated area or group: a pocket of resistance

4. a cavity in the earth, such as one containing ore

5. in one's pocket under one's control

6. out of pocket having made a loss

Verb

[-eting, -eted]

1. to put into one's pocket

2. to take secretly or dishonestly

3. Billiards etc. to drive (a ball) into a pocket

4. to conceal or suppress: he pocketed his pride and asked for help

Adjective

small: a pocket edition [Anglo-Norman poket a little bag]

Pocket a collection or small quantity, as of ore. See also layer.

Examples: pocket of air; of clay crops, 1872; of earth; of gold, 1850; of hops, 1767; of nuggets of gold, 1896; of red soil, 1893; of water, 1852; of wool (half a sack), 1706.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	pocket - a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles breast pocket - a pocket inside of a man's coat garment - an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk" hip pocket - a pocket in rear of trousers patch pocket - a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment pocket flap - a flap that covers the access to a pocket pouch - a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things 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 vest pocket - a small pocket in a man's vest
	2.	pocket - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" sac, sack, pouch enclosed space, cavity - space that is surrounded by something
	3.	pocket - a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money
	4.	pocket - (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" bowling - a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them space - an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth"
	5.	pocket - a hollow concave shape made by removing something scoop concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
	6.	pocket - a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly air hole, air pocket atmospheric phenomenon - a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
	7.	pocket - 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" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
	8.	pocket - (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) pouch gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus - thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food utricle, utriculus - a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii - a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart auricular appendage, auricular appendix, auricula - a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal cheek pouch - a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher) marsupium - an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled scrotum - the external pouch that contains the testes anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
	9.	pocket - an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck corner pocket - a pocket at the corner of a billiard table billiard table, pool table, snooker table - game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is played side pocket - a pocket on the side of a billiard table opening, gap - an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"
Verb	1.	pocket - put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" take - take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks"
	2.	pocket - take unlawfully bag steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"