pocket : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
  pocket; air hole.
  

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• noun a pocket inside of a man's coat
  

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• noun a pocket at the corner of a billiard table
  

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• noun a source of substantial wealth (usually plural)
  
  • a patron of the arts should have deep pockets

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• wealth or substantial financial assets. Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be judged due to him. This contrasts with a "judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary damages would be worthless.

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• noun small silky-haired pouched rodent; similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats
  kangaroo mouse.
  

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• noun a pocket in rear of trousers
  

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• noun large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States
  Perognathus hispidus.
  

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• verb make a lot of money
  

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• noun large pocket mouse of Mexico
  Liomys irroratus.
  

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• noun greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States
  Thomomys talpoides.
  

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• in a condition of having expended or lost more money than one has received.

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• adjective satellite calling for the spending of cash
  
  • his out-of-pocket costs were $10

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• noun a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment
  

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• noun gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America
  Geomys bursarius.
  

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• noun small rodent of open areas of United States plains states
  Perognathus flavescens.
  

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• noun a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)
  

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• noun any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
  pool.
  

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• noun pocket-sized paperback book
  pocket book; pocketbook.
  

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• noun a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family
  

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• a borough "owned" by some person. See under Borough. Eng.

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• noun usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
  pita.
  

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• noun a calculator small enough to hold in the hand or carry in a pocket
  hand calculator.
  

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• noun a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket
  pocketcomb.
  

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• noun a dictionary that is small enough to carry in your pocket
  little dictionary.
  

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• noun pocket-sized paperback book
  pocket book; pocketbook.
  

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• noun a flap that covers the access to a pocket
  

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• noun a flask that holds spirits
  hipflask.
  

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• noun burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
  pouched rat; gopher.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomydæ. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.

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• noun a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket
  pocketknife.
  

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• noun a lighter for cigars or cigarettes
  cigar lighter; cigarette lighter.
  

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• noun cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses
  spending money; pin money.
  

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• noun any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyidæ. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys), and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.

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• a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent.

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• a pistol to be carried in the pocket.

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• noun any of various rodents with cheek pouches
  

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• (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. Burrill.

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• noun indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it
  

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• noun a watch that is carried in a small watch pocket
  

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• noun a handkerchief that is carried in a pocket
  

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• adjective satellite limited in size or scope
  pocket-size; modest; small; minor; small-scale.
  
  • a small business
  • a newspaper with a modest circulation
  • small-scale plans
  • a pocket-size country
• adjective satellite small enough to be carried in a garment pocket
  pocketable; pocket-size.
  
  • pocket-size paperbacks

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• adjective satellite limited in size or scope
  pocket-size; modest; small; minor; small-scale.
  
  • a small business
  • a newspaper with a modest circulation
  • small-scale plans
  • a pocket-size country
• adjective satellite small enough to be carried in a garment pocket
  pocketable; pocket-size.
  
  • pocket-size paperbacks

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• noun small brown bat of California and northern Mexico
  pocketed bat; Tadirida femorosacca.
  

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• noun small brown bat of California and northern Mexico
  pocketed bat; Tadirida femorosacca.
  

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• noun a pocket on the side of a billiard table
  

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• noun small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico
  Perognathus flavus.
  

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• noun a pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment
  

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• noun gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida
  Geomys pinetis.
  

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• (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table.

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• to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs."

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• noun of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States
  Thomomys bottae.
  

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• noun a small pocket in a man's vest
  

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• noun a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
  fob.
  

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