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.
A small sack or bag.
A receptacle, cavity, or opening.
Financial means; money supply: The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.
A small cavity in the earth, especially one containing ore.
A small body or accumulation of ore.
A small, isolated, or protected area or group: pockets of dissatisfied voters.
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.
A pouch in an animal body, such as the cheek pouch of a rodent or the abdominal pouch of a marsupial.
Games One of the pouchlike receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiard or pool table.
Baseball The deepest part of a baseball glove, just below the web, where the ball is normally caught.
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.
A small, isolated, or protected area or group: pockets of dissatisfied voters.
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.
An air pocket.
A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.
adj.
Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket: a pocket handkerchief; a pocket edition of a dictionary.
Small; miniature: a pocket backyard; a pocket museum.
tr.v.
pock·et·ed, pock·et·ing, pock·ets
To place in or as if in a pocket.
To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly: pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.
To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).
To conceal or suppress: I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.
To prevent (a bill) from becoming law by failing to sign until the adjournment of the legislature.
Sports To hem in (a competitor) in a race.
Games To hit (a ball) into a pocket of a pool or billiard table.
[Middle English, pouch, small bag, from Anglo-Norman pokete, diminutive of Old North French poke, bag, of Germanic origin.] pock'et·a·ble adj., pock'et·less adj.
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