Pocket (disambiguation)

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A pocket is a bag- or envelope-like receptacle, most commonly in clothing.

Pocket or The Pocket may also refer to:

Other common meanings

• Pocket, a feature of some types of billiards table
• Passing pocket, a playing area in American and Canadian football
• Pocket, a term for when military units are cut off and surrounded by the enemy - see salients, re-entrants and pockets

Places

• The Pocket, New South Wales, Australia, a village
• The Pocket, an area in the neighbourhood of Riverdale, Toronto, Canada
• Pocket, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Pocket Creek, a stream in Georgia, United States
• The Pocket – Floyd County, Georgia, United States, a recreational area

Businesses

• Pocket Bicycles, a manufacturer of portable bicycles located in Massachusetts in the 1970s
• Pocket Books, a publisher of small paperback books, a division of Simon & Schuster
• Pocket Communications, a former regional cellular phone company in South Texas

Music

• Pocket (musician) a remixer and producer
• The Pockets, the original name for the band Saga
• Pockets (album) by Karate
• "Pocket" (song), a single by Ai Otsuka released in 2007
• "Pocket" (Sam Sparro song), a 2008 single

Video game consoles

• Bemani Pocket, a series of video game consoles from Konami
• Pelican VG Pocket, an early handheld video game console

Other uses

• Pocket (application), management tool for keeping articles for reading later
• Herbert Pocket, a character in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Pocket Magazine, a defunct American literary magazine established in 1895
• Pocket Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Indiana, United States