SIDE POCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does side pocket mean? 

• SIDE POCKET (noun)
  The noun SIDE POCKET has 1 sense:

1. a pocket on the side of a billiard table

  Familiarity information: SIDE POCKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDE POCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pocket on the side of a billiard table

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("side pocket" is a kind of...):

pocket (an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck)

 Context examples 

“Where did you get that dog-cart? Pull up, man!” he yelled, drawing a pistol from his side pocket.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Chris said that as long as they were at Crawley before the George shut up they could work it. ‘It’s poor pay for a chance of a rope,’ said Red Ike. ‘Rope be damned!’ cried Chris, takin’ a little loaded stick out of his side pocket. ‘If three of you ’old him down and I break his arm-bone with this, we’ve earned our money, and we don’t risk more’n six months’ jug.’ ‘’E’ll fight,’ said Berks. ‘Well, it’s the only fight ’e’ll get,’ answered Chris, and that was all I ’eard of it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)