/ˈpɒk.ɪt/
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items; A person's financial resources; An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table
- plural
- pockets
Meanings
- 1
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items
Her red dress has pockets.
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What's that in your pocket?
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- 2
A person's financial resources
- 3
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
- 4
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by anotherrare
- 5
An area of land surrounded by a loop of a riverrare
- 6
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 outrare
- 7
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 linerare
- 8
An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy unitsrare
- 9
The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middlerare
- 10
The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most powerrare