pocket: Bedeutung und Definitionen

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.

A small sack or bag.

A receptacle, cavity, or opening.

Financial means; money supply: The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.

A small cavity in the earth, especially one containing ore.

A small body or accumulation of ore.

A pouch in an animal body, such as the cheek pouch of a rodent or the abdominal pouch of a marsupial.

Games One of the pouchlike receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiard or pool table.

Baseball The deepest part of a baseball glove, just below the web, where the ball is normally caught.

Sports A racing position in which a contestant has no room to pass a group of contestants immediately to his or her front or side.

A small, isolated, or protected area or group: pockets of dissatisfied voters.

Football The area a few yards behind the line of scrimmage that blockers attempt to keep clear so that the quarterback can pass the ball.

An air pocket.

A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.

Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket: a pocket handkerchief; a pocket edition of a dictionary.

Small; miniature: a pocket backyard; a pocket museum.

To place in or as if in a pocket.

To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly: pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.

To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).

To conceal or suppress: I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.

To prevent (a bill) from becoming law by failing to sign until the adjournment of the legislature.

Sports To hem in (a competitor) in a race.

Games To hit (a ball) into a pocket of a pool or billiard table.

in (one's) pocket In one's power, influence, or possession: The defendant had the jury in his pocket.

in pocket Having funds.