• a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
• an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
• (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
• 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"
• a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
• a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers'' Pockets"
• a hollow concave shape made by removing something
• (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the Pocket and gave him a perfect strike"
• an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a Pocket of air"
• put in one''s Pocket; "He Pocketed the change"
• take unlawfully

'Pocket' in other languages