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ˈside-pocket
[side n.1]
1. A pocket in the side-portion of a garment (esp. a coat or jacket).
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 116 Pulling out his butcher's knife from a sheath in his side-pocket. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3) s.v., He has as much need of a wife as a dog of a side pocket; said of a weak old debilitated man. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxx, Buttoning his coat over the arms, which were concealed in a side-pocket ingeniously contrived for that purpose. 1862G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside the Bar iii. 265 He's no more use for a hunter now, than a cow has for a side-pocket. 1901Macm. Mag. Apr. 465/2 He brought an old coat one day, and amused himself firing through the side-pockets.
attrib.1898Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 4/2 He wore a..side-pocket jacket which fitted him like a glove.
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1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 23 Along the sides of the tent are suspended rows of square-cut canvas bags, called side-pockets. |