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  • adjective Resembling a pocket or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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pocket +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Standing in the tiny entryway, Doreen carefully put my coat on a thick wooden hanger, draped my scarf around the collar, and slid it into place in the little pocketlike closet.

    Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010

  • At the direct middle of the circular pattern, the crystals curved inward, following a pocketlike hollow in the wall.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • 8. Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.

    They Got the Idea From the Lesbian Seagull « Whatever 2007

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