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Definition of Slash pocket
1. Noun. A pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slash Pocket
Literary usage of Slash pocket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"... dirty raincoat still hung on the plastic coatrack, and the canteen of vodka
was still cached in the slash pocket. But he had the attention, praise, ..."
2. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1865)
"... with white metal buttons and a tasty slash pocket, a .blue and white woolen
under-jacket, white leather breeches, blue stockings, and brass buckles in ..."
3. Memoirs of James Hardy Vauxby James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"... body-slangs are body-irons used on some occasions. SLAVEY, a servant of either
sex. SLIP, the slash pocket in the skirt of a coat behind. SLOP, tea. ..."
4. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1823)
"SLICE. To take a slice; to intrigue, particularly with a married woman, because
a slice off a cut loaf is not missed. SLIP. The slash pocket in the skirt of ..."
5. The Historical Magazine (1864)
"... with white metal buttons and a tasty slash pocket, a blue and white woolen
under-jacket, white leather breeches, blue stockings, and brass buckles in ..."
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