| 1. | lacking money. |
| 2. | having suffered a financial loss. |
[out-uh
v-pok-it] 
| 1. | paid out or owed in cash; necessitating an expenditure of cash: The out-of-pocket expenses include cab fares. |
| 2. | without funds or assets: an out-of-pocket student who stayed with us. |
[pok-it] | 1. | a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used esp. for carrying small articles. |
| 2. | a bag or pouch. |
| 3. | means; financial resources: a selection of gifts to fit every pocket. |
| 4. | any pouchlike receptacle, compartment, hollow, or cavity. |
| 5. | an envelope, receptacle, etc., usually of heavy paper and open at one end, used for storing or preserving photographs, stamps, phonograph records, etc.: Each album has 12 pockets. |
| 6. | a recess, as in a wall, for receiving a sliding door, sash weights, etc. |
| 7. | any isolated group, area, element, etc., contrasted, as in status or condition, with a surrounding element or group: pockets of resistance; a pocket of poverty in the central city. |
| 8. | Mining.
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| 9. | Billiards, Pool. any of the pouches or bags at the corners and sides of the table. |
| 10. | a position in which a competitor in a race is so hemmed in by others that his or her progress is impeded. |
| 11. | Football. the area from which a quarterback throws a pass, usually a short distance behind the line of scrimmage and protected by a wall of blockers. |
| 12. | Bowling. the space between the headpin and the pin next behind to the left or right, taken as the target for a strike. |
| 13. | Baseball. the deepest part of a mitt or glove, roughly in the area around the center of the palm, where most balls are caught. |
| 14. | Nautical. a holder consisting of a strip of sailcloth sewed to a sail, and containing a thin wooden batten that stiffens the leech of the sail. |
| 15. | Anatomy. any saclike cavity in the body: a pus pocket. |
| 16. | stage pocket. |
| 17. | an English unit of weight for hops equivalent to 168 pounds (76.4 kg). |
| 18. | small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch. |
| 19. | relatively small; smaller than usual: a pocket war; a pocket country. |
| 20. | to put into one's pocket: to pocket one's keys. |
| 21. | to take possession of as one's own, often dishonestly: to pocket public funds. |
| 22. | to submit to or endure without protest or open resentment: to pocket an insult. |
| 23. | to conceal or suppress: to pocket one's pride. |
| 24. | to enclose or confine in or as if in a pocket: The town was pocketed in a small valley. |
| 25. | Billiards, Pool. to drive (a ball) into a pocket. |
| 26. | pocket-veto. |
| 27. | to hem in (a contestant) so as to impede progress, as in racing. |
| 28. | in one's pocket, in one's possession; under one's influence: He has the audience in his pocket. |
| 29. | line one's pockets, to profit, esp. at the expense of others: While millions were fighting and dying, the profiteers were lining their pockets. |
| 30. | out of pocket, having suffered a financial loss; poorer: He had made unwise land purchases, and found himself several thousand dollars out of pocket. |
| out of pocket adv.
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pocket pock·et (pŏk'ĭt)
n.
In anatomy, a cul-de-sac or pouchlike cavity.
A diseased space between the inflamed gum and the surface of a tooth.
A collection of pus in a nearly closed sac.
To enclose within a confined space.
To approach the surface at a localized spot, as with the thinned out wall of an abscess which is about to rupture.
out of pocket
Lacking money; also, having suffered a financial loss, as in We can't go; I'm out of pocket right now. William Congreve had it in The Old Bachelor (1693): "But egad, I'm a little out of pocket at present." [Late 1600s]
Referring to actual money spent, as in I had to pay the hotel bill out of pocket, but I know I'll be reimbursed. This expression sometimes occurs as a hyphenated adjective mainly in the phrase out-of-pocket expenses, as in My out-of-pocket expenses for business travel amounted to more than a thousand dollars. [Late 1800s]