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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Origin of pocketful
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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
B.L. was like stepping into a kennel of Dobermans with a pocketful of rib-eyes—and not hearing so much as a yip.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2021
The April 13 Style article “A first-grader gets a pocketful of kudos after a letter to Old Navy goes viral” explained why first-grader Kamryn Gardner wanted pockets in her jeans.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021
Amy, writer, London I’ll be taking my little people on a walk of the neighbourhood, them holding buckets and me with a pocketful of sweets.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2020
She just keeps smiling at me like she’s been doing for a month now, like she’s got a pocketful of paper money.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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
Oh no, he would not take all that trouble for two poor pocketfuls of money.
From Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk by Howard Pyle
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