Speech parts
1. pocket - Noun
2. pocket - Adjective
3. pocket - Verb
4. Pocket - Proper noun
Meaning
A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
A hole containing water.
A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
Same as Pouch.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
A lawyer looks at you with one eye, but he looks at your pocket with two.
A book is like a garden in the pocket.
The hands of a lawyer are always in someone's pocket.