Definition of: pocket

(pok′it) noun
1. A small bag or pouch; especially, a pouch attached to a garment, as for carrying money.
2. Hence, money; pecuniary means or interests.
3. A cavity, opening, or receptacle.
4. Mining A cavity containing gold or other ore; also, an accumulation of alluvial gold in one spot.
5. One of the pouches in a billiard or pool table, into which the balls are driven.
6. A bin for holding grain, coal, etc., for storage.
7. A glen among mountains.
8. In horse-racing, a position in which a horse is behind the leading horse or horses, and is kept from going past by others at the side.
9. An air pocket.
—in one's pocket
1. On terms of intimacy as close to one as one's pocket.
2. Under one's influence or control.
—adjective
1. Diminutive, as if pocketable.
2. Pertaining to, for, or carried in a pocket: pocket lining, pocket knife.
—v.t.
1. To put into or confine in a pocket.
2. To appropriate as one's own, especially dishonestly, as profits or funds.
3. To enclose as if in a pocket.
4. To accept or endure without open resentment or reply, as an insult.
5. To conceal or suppress: Pocket your pride.
6. To retain without signing. See POCKET VETO.
7. In billiards, etc., to drive (a ball) into a pocket. [<AF pokette, poquette, dim. of OF poque, poche bag, pouch]
—pock′et·a·ble adjective
—pock′et·er noun