pocket protector

English

Noun

pocket protector (plural pocket protectors)

1. A sheath, usually of plastic, designed to fit in a shirt pocket and hold pens and other small implements, preventing them from tearing or staining the shirt.
   • 2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15:

     Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.

Translations

a sheath designed to fit in a shirt pocket

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• Spanish: protector de bolsillo m

See also

• pocket protector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia