Definitions for pockets

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pockets pock·et

Spelling: [pok-it]

IPA: /ˈpɒk ɪt/

Pockets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in pockets (cekopst).

Definitions for pockets

noun

1. a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
2. a bag or pouch.
3. means; financial resources:
4. any pouchlike receptacle, compartment, hollow, or cavity.
5. an envelope, receptacle, etc., usually of heavy paper and open at one end, used for storing or preserving photographs, stamps, phonograph records, etc.:
6. a recess, as in a wall, for receiving a sliding door, sash weights, etc.
7. any isolated group, area, element, etc., contrasted, as in status or condition, with a surrounding element or group:
8. Mining. a small orebody or mass of ore, frequently isolated. a bin for ore or rock storage. a raise or small slope fitted with chute gates.
9. Billiards, Pool. any of the pouches or bags at the corners and sides of the table.
10. a position in which a competitor in a race is so hemmed in by others that his or her progress is impeded.
11. Football. the area from which a quarterback throws a pass, usually a short distance behind the line of scrimmage and protected by a wall of blockers.
12. Bowling. the space between the headpin and the pin next behind to the left or right, taken as the target for a strike.
13. Baseball. the deepest part of a mitt or glove, roughly in the area around the center of the palm, where most balls are caught.
14. Nautical. a holder consisting of a strip of sailcloth sewed to a sail, and containing a thin wooden batten that stiffens the leech of the sail.
15. Anatomy. any saclike cavity in the body:
16. stage pocket.
17. an English unit of weight for hops equivalent to 168 pounds (76.4 kg).

Idioms

1. in one's pocket, in one's possession; under one's influence:
2. line one's pockets, to profit, especially at the expense of others:
3. out of pocket, having suffered a financial loss; poorer: lacking money. Informal. not available; unreachable:

adjective

1. small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket:
2. relatively small; smaller than usual:

verb (used with object)

1. to put into one's pocket:
2. to take possession of as one's own, often dishonestly:
3. to submit to or endure without protest or open resentment:
4. to conceal or suppress:
5. to enclose or confine in or as if in a pocket:
6. Billiards, Pool. to drive (a ball) into a pocket.
7. pocket-veto.
8. to hem in (a contestant) so as to impede progress, as in racing.

Origin of pockets

1250-1300; Middle English poket Old North French (Picard) poquet (Old French pochet, pochette), diminutive of poque Middle Dutch poke poke²; see Examples for pockets

This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control.

Robert drew a jackknife from his pocket, and did as he was bidden.

Above the notes of praise is a small photo of Guerin wearing a polka dot tie and pocket square, staring at you like a sociopath.

He not only closed it, but locked it, having secretly hidden the key in his pocket.

I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

You can see him in the video, jamming his headphones into the pocket of his black trenchcoat.

And then I reach into my pocket and plug in another quarter.

In his pocket there were nearly two hundred dollars, not likely to be of any service to him.

"Yes," said the captain, drawing from his pocket a large wallet.

"It makes no difference to you where I got it," said our hero, returning the money to his pocket.