Definition of "pocketful" [pock•et•ful]

• The amount that a pocket can hold. (noun)

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• "By the time he ranked the car outside one of Chicago's best restaurants for lunch, she had what she called a pocketful of contracts, to sing at this restaurant and that; to dance for her supper and half a guinea at a ruinous night club, for she could do everything a little."
• "Peter has a book called A pocketful of change de Jager and Company, 2007 - obtainable from www. technobility.com which is only 60 pages long, not at all theoretical and easily readable in an hour."
• "They might just mean a "pocketful" of sewing tricks."