Definition of Pocketable

1. Adjective. Small enough to be carried in a garment pocket. "Pocket-size paperbacks"

Exact synonyms: Pocket-size, Pocket-sized
Similar to: Little, Small

Definition of Pocketable

1. Adjective. Able to be put in one's pocket ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pocketable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketable

pocket parks
pocket pistol
pocket pistols
pocket protector
pocket protectors
pocket rat
pocket rockets
pocket square
pocket trumpet
pocket trumpets
pocket veto
pocket vetos
pocket watch
pocket watches
pocketable (current term)
pocketbook
pocketbooks
pocketcomb
pocketed
pocketed bat
pocketed calculus
pocketed freetail bat
pocketer
pocketers
pocketful
pocketfuls
pocketing
pocketknife
pocketknives

Literary usage of Pocketable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1892)
"... a society whose only ideal will be pleasure, ease, and "pocketable" gain. And when this Americanism, this western materialism and greed of gain, ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"... and am quite sorry to part with it. Still I must in favour of another Walker— No. 7— a size larger, but slimmer and more pocketable. Walker's No. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"... with its contents securely inclosed, is transposed into a globular body, compact, easily pocketable, and, in the language of the commercial traveller, ..."

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