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pocket

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. Raymond Chandler

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. Studs Terkel

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. Kin Hubbard

A lawyer looks at you with one eye, but he looks at your pocket with two. Jamaican Proverb

A book is like a garden in the pocket. Hindi Proverb

The hands of a lawyer are always in someone's pocket. Hindi Proverb

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