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backpocket

backpocket is the alternative form of back pocket.

backpocket is the alternative form of back-pocket.

Meaning of back pocket

Noun

back pocket (plural back pockets)

  1. A pocket found on the back of a pair of trousers.
    • To appear in the know, regale your new Italian chums with tales of how he covered the Italy squad in his Panini stickers album with nothing but his own face, or the classic story of the time he was stopped by police with £5,000 in cash in his backpocket and explained it with the line "Because I am...2014 June 20, Pete Cashmore, “How to become an instant Italy fan”, in The Guardian

Meaning of back-pocket

Verb

back-pocket (third-person singular simple present back-pockets, present participle back-pocketing, simple past and past participle back-pocketed)

  1. (transitive) To put (something) into a back pocket.
    • “Right.” He back-pocketed the notebook and lifted the Nikon from my bag. “Take a few steps down the hill and point toward the ruins so I can get both in one shot.”2003, Robert Eversz, Burning Garbo: A Nina Zero Novel, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, published 2005, →ISBN, page 23
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To put (something) aside for future use; to keep in reserve.
    • “All the lyrics talk about is humility and heartbreak, and then at the end it’s exuberance and joy,” Hines said. “The only way that fits is if the Caps win the Stanley Cup, so I sort of back-pocketed the idea for years. I put together multiple iterations of it in my head, and it just never panned...2019 June 7, Scott Allen, “How Mumford and Sons became the soundtrack for Capitals’ Stanley Cup triumph”, in The Washington Post

Forms of backpocket

Noun
pluralbackpockets
Verb
third-person singular presentbackpockets
present participlebackpocketing
past participlebackpocketed
pastbackpocketed

Questions about backpocket

What is backpocket the alternative form of?
Backpocket is the alternative form of back pocket.

Words near backpocket in the dictionary

  1. backplane
  2. backplanes
  3. backplate
  4. backplated
  5. backplates
  6. backpocket
  7. backpocketed
  8. backpocketing
  9. backpockets
  10. backporch
  11. backporches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backpocket (page history and authors); back pocket (page history and authors); back-pocket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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