pocket
pocket
(pŏkʹĭt) noun
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, a cavity, or an opening. See synonyms at hole.
4.
Financial means; money supply: The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.
5.
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. 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.
9. A small, isolated, or protected area or group.
10. An air pocket.
11. A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.
adjective
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.
verb
, transitive
pocketed
, pocketing, pockets
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.
3.
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.
idiom.
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.
line (one's) pockets
To make a profit, especially by illegitimate means.
[Middle English, pouch, small bag, from Anglo-Norman pokete, diminutive of Old North French poke, bag, of Germanic origin.]
pock
ʹetable adjective
pock
ʹetless adjective