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- noun Plural form of
pocket . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pocket .
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Examples
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By the way, which one of your pockets is the fullest?
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So, listening to the talking heads who are damaging this country in order to line their pockets is your information?
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And Angelina Jolie says she's not a politician but she has seen what she calls pockets of extremism and anger.
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It indicates there are what they call pockets of resistance, still a significant threat out there to U.S. soldiers -- Bill.
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Jason Bellini was in the old port where there are still what he described as pockets of resistance.
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More than the mates and the maniac, more than the drunken callousness of the men, did this quiet figure, hands in pockets, impress upon me that I was in a different world from any I had known.
CHAPTER III 2010
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But I kept a-chasin 'pockets and chasin' pockets, and delayin '.
CHAPTER 13 2010
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A stable with always a couple of bronchos handy; handy to slap the packs and saddles on and be off and away whenever the fever for chasin 'pockets came over me.
CHAPTER 13 2010
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But when I looked at father, there he was, just as I had always known him, hands in pockets, walking slowly up and down, now giving an order to the wheel -- you see, he had to direct the Dixie's course through all the shipping -- now watching the passengers swarming over our bow and along our deck, now looking ahead to see his way through the ships at anchor.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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He had walked to the port side of the poop, where, hands in pockets, he was glancing, now for'ard at the struggling man, now aft at the tug.
CHAPTER III 2010
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