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pocket

poc·ket

UK/ˈpɒk.ɪt/ US/ˈpɑ.kɪt/ common informal
noun (9) verb (2)

noun

1.

a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

2.

an enclosed space

  • “the trapped miners found a pocket of air”
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3.

a supply of money

  • “they dipped into the taxpayers”
4.

(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”
5.

a hollow concave shape made by removing something

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6.

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

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7.

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”
8.

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

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9.

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

verb

1.

put in one''s pocket

  • “He pocketed the change”
2.

take unlawfully

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Origin

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

Phrases

  • Alabama hot pocket
  • back pocket
  • be in the pocket of someone
  • besom pocket
  • big pocket
  • blind pocket
  • book pocket
  • breast pocket
  • pocket up

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