pocket

pocket
n
1. bag, pouch, sack, Midland U.S. and Scot. poke, Southwestern U.S. alforja, Obs. budget; saddle bag, sabretache; mail bag, mail pouch; pack, packet, satchel, container, receptacle, reticule, compartment, envelope.
2. budget, purse, pocketbook; resources, means, assets, capital, funds, finances, moneys.
3. cavity, hole, hollow, cave, cavern, crater, cup, scoop, concavity; pit, shaft, chamber, mine, bore, tunnel, excavation; abyss, crevasse; opening, aperture, orifice, fissure, crack, cleft, chink, notch, gap.
4. vein, lode, ore body.
5. cul-de-sac, impasse, bottleneck, blind, Inf. blind alley, Inf. deadend; trap, snag, quandary, predicament.
adj
6. small, bantam, diminutive, tiny, miniature; portable, compact, (of books) paperback; (all of books) condensed, abbreviated, encapsulated, compendious, abridged.
v
7. appropriate, take, assume; swindle, mulct, shark; peculate, embezzle, Law. defalcate, misappropriate; steal, rob, thieve, pilfer, purloin, finger, filch, Inf. snitch, cabbage, abstract, Chiefly Brit. prig; Euph. borrow, Archaic. nim; shoplift, palm, Sl. boost, walk off or away with, Euph. remove; All Sl. heist, pinch, hook, swipe, hustle, rip off, crook, cap, lift.
8. suffer, endure, bear, tolerate, brook, brave, take patiently, abide, stand, submit to, put up with; let pass, overlook, disregard, swallow, digest, stomach; face the music, take one's medicine, take it; accept, accommodate oneself to, reconcile oneself to, resign oneself to.
9. conceal, cover, hide, shroud, cloak, veil; screen, mask, disguise, camouflage; withhold, keep to oneself, suppress, bury, bottle up, stifle, smother, muffle; seal up, lock up.
10. confine, enclose, shut in, hem in, surround, bound; set, seclude.

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