pocket battleship

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   a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)

   Broaderbattleship

Questions about pocket battleship

What does pocket battleship mean?

pocket battleship means "a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)".

Is pocket battleship a common word?

pocket battleship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.