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  1. noun A small baglike attachment forming part of a garment and used to carry small articles, as a flat pouch sewn inside a pair of pants or a piece of material sewn on its sides and bottom to the outside of a shirt.
  2. noun A small sack or bag.
  3. noun A receptacle, cavity, or opening.

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  • You may not be aware of it, but the cameraphone in your pocket is the harbinger of a massive social transformation, one already underway. —  Posthuman Blues
  • Well, with a current-day smartphone and decent data plan the age of up-to-date newsfeed in your pocket is here. —  Mobility Site
  • In his pocket will be a plane ticket; in his bag, a camcorder to document 10 siblings and the large extended family he has not seen since he left West Bank 26 years ago, barred by separation laws from coming and going freely. —  News & Record Article Feed
  • Sgt. X had no idea that the little machine in his pocket was about to capture recorded evidence of something wounded soldiers and their advocates have long suspected -- that the military does not want Iraq veterans to be diagnosed with PTSD, a condition that obligates the military to provide expensive, intensive long-term care, including the possibility of lifetime disability payments. —  Salon
  • Sgt. X had no idea that the little machine in his pocket was about to capture recorded evidence of something wounded soldiers and their advocates have long suspected - that the military does not want Iraq veterans to be diagnosed with PTSD, a condition that obligates the military to provide expensive, intensive long-term care, including the possibility of lifetime disability payments. —  Nevada Thunder
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

bag ·  sleeve ·  belt ·  coat ·  pouch ·  drawer ·  shoulder ·  clothe ·  boot ·  button ·  purse ·  arm

Used in the same contextWord Family

pocket:   pockets ·  pocketed ·  pocketing
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Etymologies (3)

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

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  1. from Middle English pocket, poket, from Anglo-French *poquet(Norman pouquet), Old French assibilated pochet pouchet, masculine, also pochette (French pochette), feminine, a pocket, diminutive of poquc, Old French assibilated poche, a poke, pocket: see poke, pouch.
  2. from pocket, n. Cf. French pocheter, carry in the pocket.
 

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