A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
Noun 4 meanings
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
A person's financial resources.
“I paid for it out of my own pocket.”
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.
“The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.”
Verb 4 meanings
To put (something) into a pocket.
To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
“Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.”
To put up with; to bear without complaint.
Adjective 3 meanings
Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
“a pocket dictionary”
Smaller or more compact than usual.
“pocket battleship”
Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
“a pocket pair of kings”
Etymology
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
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POCKET at a glance
POCKET has 6 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (P 3 + O 1 + C 3 + K 5 + E 1 + T 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,060 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with pocket
All rhymesOne letter away
- ROCKET12
- PACKET14
- SOCKET12
- PICKET14
- DOCKET13
- LOCKET12
- POCKED15
- COCKET14
- NOCKET12
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