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Pocket (disambiguation)

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Pocket can refer to:

  • Falaise pocket, the area between the four cities of Trun-Argentan-Vimoutiers-Chambois near Falaise, France, in which Allied forces tried to encircle and destroy the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in August 1944
  • Hot Pockets, microwaveable meal of cheese and meat wrapped up in a flaky crust
  • Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, battle
  • Operation Medak Pocket, military operation undertaken by the Croatian Army
  • Pocket, small bag
  • Pocket (billiards), holes with pockets on the sides of billiard tables
  • Pocket Books, division of Simon & Schuster which primarily publishes paperback books
  • Pocket Cube, the 2×2×2 equivalent of a Rubik's cube
  • Pocket gopher, burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae
  • Pocket knife, folding knife with a blade that fits inside the handle and that is small enough to fit in a pocket
  • Pocket Money, 1972 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg from a screenplay written by Terrence Malick
  • Pocket PC, handheld-sized computer that runs a specific version of the Windows CE operating system
  • Pocket veto, legislative maneuver in American federal lawmaking
  • Ruhr Pocket, battle that took place at the end of World War II in the Ruhr Area, Germany
  • Salients, re-entrants and pockets, battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory

Pocket may also refer to:

  • Watch, also called Pocket Clock