From a dictionary definition:
noun
- a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- a bag or pouch.
adjective
- small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
- relatively small;
- smaller than usual: a pocket war;
- a pocket country.
verb (used with object)
- to put into one’s pocket: to pocket one’s keys.
- to take possession of as one’s own, often dishonestly: to pocket public funds.
- to submit to or endure without protest or open resentment: to pocket an insult.
- to conceal or suppress: to pocket one’s pride.
- to enclose or confine in or as if in a pocket: The town was pocketed in a small valley.
- Billiards, Pool. to drive (a ball) into a pocket.
- pocket-veto.
- to hem in (a contestant) so as to impede progress, as in racing.
We’ll start off with small or concealed for now.
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