pocketful
Americannoun
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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He walks around with a pocketful of clear marbles and a lowball glass filled with white wine, uttering phrases like “that’s bitchin’!” with such excitement that you can’t help but agree with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 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
Lucinda had a pocketful of dimes and quarters with a value of $6.20.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 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
I returned home with a pocketful of money that melted into the bottomless hunger of the household.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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
Wisi had always pocketfuls of apples, pears, and nuts, that all came from Andrew; for every thing that he had, or could procure, he used to stuff into Wisi's satchel.
From Rico and Wiseli by Brooks, Louise
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