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pocket   (TTS Sound)

The noun pocket has 9 senses

• pocket -- (a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles)


• pouch, sac, sack, pocket -- (an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air")


• pocket -- (a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets")


• pocket -- ((bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike")


• scoop, pocket -- (a hollow concave shape made by removing something)


• air pocket, pocket, air hole -- (a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly)


• pocket -- (a small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance")


• pouch, pocket -- ((anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican))


• pocket -- (an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck)

The verb pocket has 2 senses

• pocket -- (put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change")


• pocket, bag -- (take unlawfully)