Definition of "pocket-sized" [pocket-sized]

• Of a size suitable to be carried in a pocket: a pocket-sized radio. (adjective)
• Small: "a pocket-sized riot in the Lower House” ( Terence Smith). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It does 8 megapixels and has a 3x zoom; more importantly, it is pocket-sized."
• "I love empanadas, the little pocket-sized South and Central American stuffed pastries, and have had them with all kinds of meat and vegetarian fillings."
• "As Mr. Hermes puts it: "Except for the Japanese break-dancers, the botanically advanced weed, the Republican mayor, the iPods, the pocket-sized Flip video cameras, the openly gay kids, and the relative lack of menace, it seems not unlike the old days" in present-day New York."