Pocket

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A pocket is a small bag. The term is also used in other contexts, very often relating either to the ability to enclose something as in a pocket on a billiards table, or to small size, as if able to fit in the pocket of a garment:

Applications

• Pocket (application), management tool for keeping articles for reading later.

Clothing

• A pouch on a garment, such as trousers or a jacket pocket
• Pocketbook, a purse

Communication

• Pocket Communications, a regional cellular phone company in South Texas

Food

• Hot Pockets and Pizza Pockets, microwaveable meals of filling wrapped in crust
• Pita ("pocket bread"), a round flatbread

Geography

• Pocket-Greenhaven, Sacramento, California
• Pocket beach, a small beach between two headlands
• Pocket park, a small park
• River pocket, an area of land contained within the bend of a river

Military

• Pocket battleship, a World War II Deutschland class cruiser
• Salients, re-entrants and pockets, battlefield features projecting into enemy territory

Publishing

• Pocket Books, publisher of small paperback books
• Pocket book, a generic term for a small paperback book

Sports

• Pocket, a feature of some types of billiards table
• Back pocket, a position on the field deep in defense in Australian rules football
• Forward pocket, a position on the field deep in offense in Australian rules football
• One-pocket, a variation of billiards
• Passing pocket, a playing area in American football
• Pocket billiards, a sub-classification of cue sports
• Pocket schedule, a foldable schedule for a sports club

Video games

• Bemani Pocket, a series of video game consoles from Konami
• Pelican VG Pocket, an early handheld video game console
• Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokémon

Music

• Pocket (musician) a remixer and producer
• Pockets (album) by Karate
• Pockets, A 1970s funk band who released "Come go With me" in 1978
• The Pockets, the original name for the band Saga
• Pocket, a single by Ai Otsuka released in 2007.
• "In the pocket" is a slang expression for music with a strong rhythmic groove (music)

Other

• Pocket, a hollow formed in plastic blow molding
• Pocket, a type of body modification
• Punched pocket, a plastic pocket for holding loose papers

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