pocket
1. a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles (Freq. 21) • Hypernyms: pouch • Hyponyms: breast pocket, hip pocket, patch pocket, slash pocket, vest pocket • Part Holonyms: garment • Part Meronyms: pocket flap 2. an enclosed space (Freq. 2) - the trapped miners found a pocket of air • Syn: pouch, sac, sack • Hypernyms: cavity, enclosed space 3. a supply of money (Freq. 2) - they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets • Hypernyms: funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource 4. (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 • Topics: bowling • Hypernyms: space 5. a hollow concave shape made by removing something • Syn: scoop • Derivationally related forms: scoop (for: scoop) • Hypernyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature 6. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly • Syn: air pocket, air hole • Hypernyms: atmospheric phenomenon 7. 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 • Hypernyms: people 8. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) • Syn: pouch • Topics: anatomy, general anatomy • Hypernyms: sac • Hyponyms: gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill, utricle, utriculus, auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii, auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix, cheek pouch, marsupium, scrotum 9. an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck • Hypernyms: opening, gap • Hyponyms: corner pocket, side pocket • Part Holonyms: pool table, billiard table, snooker table
1. put in one's pocket (Freq. 1) - He pocketed the change • Hypernyms: take • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s something from somebody - They pocket the money 2. take unlawfully • Syn: bag • Hypernyms: steal • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - They pocket the money
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