Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

hip pocket

British  

noun

  1. a pocket at the back of a pair of trousers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Your metabolism — and your hip pocket — will thank you.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2023

“But then, not really, because when I was a commander, the JAG was in my hip pocket, to keep me out of trouble.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 3, 2022

It was just suddenly this cool thing that you had to have in your hip pocket or in your whatever, in your hand, if you wanted to be a trendsetter.

From The Verge Jun. 29, 2021

Does the Cinerama join them on the road to an oblivion where a movie screen is no more special than some pixels you carry in your hip pocket?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2021

At the end of the passageway, before an enormous mural of Saint George and the Dragon over the staircase landing, he folded the ship’s newspaper into quarters and put it into his left hip pocket.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training