Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount that a pocket can hold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Enough to fill a pocket; as much as a pocket will hold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
quantity that apocket would typically hold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity a pocket will hold
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Examples
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By the time he ranked the car outside one of Chicago's best restaurants for lunch, she had what she called a pocketful of contracts, to sing at this restaurant and that; to dance for her supper and half a guinea at a ruinous night club, for she could do everything a little.
Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920
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Peter has a book called A pocketful of change de Jager and Company, 2007 - obtainable from www. technobility.com which is only 60 pages long, not at all theoretical and easily readable in an hour.
Archive 2007-04-01 Clive Shepherd 2007
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Peter has a book called A pocketful of change de Jager and Company, 2007 - obtainable from www. technobility.com which is only 60 pages long, not at all theoretical and easily readable in an hour.
Learning is change Clive Shepherd 2007
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They might just mean a "pocketful" of sewing tricks.
Ask MetaFilter Rube R. Nekker 2010
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We emerged upon the sidewalk, each with a pocketful of money.
Chapter 17 2010
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Alas, if you gave our Jacqui a penny for her thoughts, you'd get a pocketful of change in return.
Archive 2009-02-08 2009
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Lee Mack writes and stars as displaced Lee in the flatshare comedy, where tonight things take a potentially sinister turn when Tim returns from a work do with a pocketful of a suspicious powder.
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Alas, if you gave our Jacqui a penny for her thoughts, you'd get a pocketful of change in return.
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We can sell it back to one of the drivers and make some folding money instead of a pocketful of nickels.
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We can sell it back to one of the drivers and make some folding money instead of a pocketful of nickels.
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ronnie Van Zant and Me » Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2009
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