pocketful
Americannoun
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pocketfuls
plural
noun
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as much as a pocket will hold
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informal a large amount
it cost him a pocketful of money
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This week sees the release of his debut album, “Belamor,” a pocketful of intimate electro-pop gems from a queer Latino in exile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
A pocketful of nukes intensifies the drama and puts North Korea center stage.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2020
Lucinda had a pocketful of dimes and quarters with a value of $ $6.20.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
He has proved to be irresistible media catnip : flamboyant and fast-talking with a bottomless pocketful of scoops and quotes.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2018
The doctor offers Phineas $1,000 for the pocketful of pebbles that Phineas has collected walking along the Black River near town.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Mr Lake said Talbot accepted when he attended the property sore "he would take pocketfuls, as much as he could fit in his pockets".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
He’d won two pocketfuls of marbles last week, and he’d done the honorable thing and returned them all.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
A group of Allied soldiers dig a tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp, pocketfuls of dirt at a time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
Others, like physicist Jeff Gore, head of the advocacy group Citizens to Retire the Penny, are simply annoyed that we carry around pocketfuls of low-value coins, calling it “a big, horrible waste of time.”
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2017
The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketfuls of stones and with these climbed up a tree.
From Types of Children's Literature by Walter Barnes
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