VEST POCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vest pocket mean? 

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

1. a small pocket in a man's vest

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEST POCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small pocket in a man's vest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

pocket (a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vest pocket"):

fob; watch pocket (a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch)

 Context examples 

He stood easily, with one thumb in the arm-pit, and two fingers of the other hand in his vest pocket.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Laurie smiled, took it, put it in his vest pocket 'to keep it from blowing away', and listened with interest to the lively letter Amy read him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Next morning Fred showed me one of the crumpled flowers in his vest pocket, and looked very sentimental.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)