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say it: PAH-kuht
pocket is a noun and verb meaning "a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles". It is pronounced /ˈpɑkət/ — PAH-kuht. It carries 11 recorded senses.
a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
“the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike”
bowling
a hollow concave shape made by removing something
a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
a small isolated group of people
“they were concentrated in pockets inside the city”
“the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance”
an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pocket come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.