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