IPA: pˈɑkʌt
noun
- A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- A small, isolated group or area.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- (transitive, informal) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
- (transitive, informal, dated) To put up with; to bear without complaint.
adjective
- Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
- Smaller or more compact than usual.
- (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
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Examples of "pocket" in Sentences
- Cash in pocket is liquid, house values are illiquid.
- My everyday knife that I keep in my pocket is a Kershaw.
- Keeping legislators in their pocket is the main objective.
- Twenty bucks in the pocket is a whole lot cheaper than a tow bill.
- In his pocket is a photograph of Mickey Carlyle, a seven-year-old girl kidnapped three years before and presumed dead.
- I knew he was well off, so probably he could afford the £5; but at the end of the term pocket-money was not a plentiful commodity.
- The term "pocket deal" usually implies that a broker is intimately involved in working with the seller, despite the lack of an official listing.
- These reporting/carrying rules in the US make that ~legal~ diversion look much more like illegal activity; having to prove that the large whack of cash in your pocket is a gambling stake rather than drug money.
- For example, optimizing for the term pocket protectors may result in traffic from terms such as leather pocket protectors, plastic pocket protector, clear pocket protector, vinyl pocket protector, pocket pen protector, and many others, depending on the types of products offered.
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