pocket piece
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pocket piece
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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The "telephone coincidental" reports are gathered, run through I.B.M. machines, beaten into percentages and published every two weeks in "the pocket piece," a small green booklet that is every huckster's Bible.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others carry the medal as a pocket piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mary has that shilling this blessed minute, put away in her purse for a pocket piece, and she carries it everywhere she goes.
From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
There go four dollars' worth of dough and my pocket piece.
From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
C. Hunter, with his signature, makes a fine pocket piece.
From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by Hunter, William Crosbie
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