Pocket Definition

pŏkĭt
pocketed, pocketing, pockets
noun
pockets
A sack, esp. when used to measure something.
Webster's New World
A cloth pouch sewn into or on clothing, for carrying money and small articles.
Webster's New World
Any usually small container, compartment, enclosure, etc.
Webster's New World
A cavity that holds or can hold something.
Webster's New World
Financial resources; funds; means.
A drain on one's pocket.
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adjective
That is or can be carried in a pocket.
Webster's New World
Small; miniature.
A pocket backyard; a pocket museum.
American Heritage
Smaller than standard.
Webster's New World
Not widespread; contained; isolated.
Pocket resistance.
Webster's New World
Designating the two cards that are dealt to a player face down in Texas hold'em.
Was holding pocket eights.
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verb
pocketed, pocketing, pockets
To put into a pocket.
Webster's New World
To provide with a pocket or pockets.
Webster's New World
To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly.
Pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.
American Heritage
To envelop; enclose.
Webster's New World
To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).
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idiom
in (one's) pocket
  • In one's power, influence, or possession:

    The defendant had the jury in his pocket.

American Heritage
in pocket
  • Having funds.
  • Having gained or retained funds of a specified amount:

    was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.

American Heritage
out of pocket
  • Out of one's own resources:

    fees paid out of pocket.

  • Without funds or assets:

    a traveler who was caught out of pocket.

American Heritage
in someone's pocket
  • completely under someone's influence
Webster's New World
in pocket
  • gained or available
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pocket

Noun

Singular:
pocket
Plural:
pockets

Origin of Pocket

  • From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack"), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack") (compare modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokka (“pouch"), from Proto-Germanic *puk-, *pÅ«ka- (“bag, pouch"), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *beu- (“to blow, swell"). Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag"), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag"), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket"). Cf. the related poke ("sack or bag"). See also Modern French pochette.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English pouch, small bag from Anglo-Norman pokete diminutive of Old North French poke bag of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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