pocket

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noun

1 for keeping things in

ADJECTIVE

▪ bulging

▪

tourists with bulging pockets

▪ deep

▪ zip (BrE), zipped, zippered (AmE)

▪ jean (esp. AmE), jeans, pants (AmE), trouser (esp. BrE)

▪ coat, jacket, shirt, vest (AmE), waistcoat (BrE), etc.

▪ back, breast, chest (AmE), front, hip, inner, inside, outer, side, top

▪ door (esp. BrE), seat

▪

Please read the safety leaflet in the seat pocket in front of you (= on a plane).

▪ hidden, secret

▪

Forged passports were found in a secret pocket in the suitcase.

VERB + POCKET

▪ check, feel in, fish in, fumble in, go through, rummage in, search

▪

He went through all his pockets looking for his key.

▪ pat

▪

My cellphone rang and I patted my pockets looking for it.

▪ reach in

▪

She reached in her pocket and pulled out her phone.

▪ dip into (figurative)

▪

Once again club members have had to dip into their pockets (= spend their own money) to buy new equipment.

▪ fish sth from/out of, get sth from/out of, pull sth from/out of, take sth from/out of

▪

I fished the list out of my pocket.

▪ empty, turn out

▪

The security guard made them empty their pockets.

▪ put sth in/into, stuff sth in/into, thrust sth in/into

▪

She stuffed the money into her pocket and walked out.

▪

He walked past with his collar turned up and his hands thrust into his pockets.

▪ fill, stuff

▪

We filled our pockets with apples.

▪ line (figurative)

▪

Dishonest officials have been lining their pockets with public funds.

▪ pick

▪

He caught a boy trying to pick his pocket on the bus.

POCKET + VERB

▪ bulge

▪

My pockets were bulging with loose change.

POCKET + NOUN

▪ lining

PREPOSITION

▪ in the/your pocket

▪

My wallet was in the back pocket of my jeans.

▪ out of the/your pocket

▪

He took a few coins out of his pocket.

PHRASES

▪ hands in pockets, with your hands in your pockets

▪

He stood there, hands in pockets.

▪ the lining of a pocket

2 small area/group

ADJECTIVE

▪ large, small

▪

The country has large pockets of unemployment.

▪ isolated

PHRASES

▪ a pocket of resistance

▪

Government forces are mopping up the last pockets of resistance.

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verb

Pocket is used with these nouns as the object: ↑difference