Pocket Definition
- In one's power, influence, or possession:
The defendant had the jury in his pocket.
- Having funds.
- Having gained or retained funds of a specified amount:
was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.
- Out of one's own resources:
fees paid out of pocket.
- Without funds or assets:
a traveler who was caught out of pocket.
- completely under someone's influence
- gained or available
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pocket
Origin of Pocket
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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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