Pocket

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Pocket (plural Pockets)

  1. A surname.
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, “[HTTPS://EN.WIKISOURCE.ORG/WIKI/GREAT_EXPECTATIONS/CHAPTER_XXII CHAPTER 22]”, in Great Expectations [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, [], published October 1861, →OCLC:
      I derived from this speech that Mr. Herbert Pocket (for Herbert was the pale young gentleman's name) still rather confounded his intention with his execution.
    • 1996, The Polly Pocket Cookbook[1]:
    • 2014, Dot and the Waves, page 10[2]:
      Pollyanna Pocket was small, with long floppy ears and a tail that coiled upwards in a little ringlet. She was a bouncy, happy young dog, who frolicked all day