pocket piece
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pocket piece
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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Others carry the medal as a pocket piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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)
Dat was me lucky pocket piece, and dat's gone, too.
From The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? by Webster, Frank V.
Right; it is a spade guinea—a pocket piece I've carried for years.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.
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