pocket is a 6-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
- noun. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
- noun. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
- noun. A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
- noun. A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- noun. A hole containing water.
- noun. A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- noun. Same as Pouch.
- transitive verb. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
- transitive verb. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
- noun. a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- noun. an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- noun. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- noun. 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"
- noun. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- noun. a supply of money
"they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets"
- noun. a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- noun. (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"
- noun. an enclosed space
"the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
- verb. put in one's pocket
"He pocketed the change"
- verb. take unlawfully
Synonyms
Common word forms
pockets, pocketed, pocketer, pocketful, pocketing, pocketable, pocketless
Words from these letters
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