pocket flask
pocket flask noun: a flat metal container for alcoholic beverages, with a narrow neck suitable for use as a drinking spout, designed to fit into a man's pocket and popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Noun
pocket flask (plural pocket flasks)
- A flat metal container for alcoholic beverages, with a narrow neck suitable for use as a drinking spout, designed to fit into a man's pocket and popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- The traveller had been at the pains of going a long way up stairs to his sleeping-room, to fetch his pocket-flask of brandy.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Fellow Travellers”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 2nd book (Riches), page 334
- We were walking at a smart pace, and a sip from my pocket-flask soon set my old friend's tongue going.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26
- Synonyms:
- hip flask, hip-pocket flask
Synonyms of pocket flask
Forms of pocket flask
| plural | pocket flasks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pocket-flask |
Questions about pocket flask
- What does pocket flask mean?
- Pocket flask means a flat metal container for alcoholic beverages, with a narrow neck suitable for use as a drinking spout, designed to fit into a man's pocket and popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- What part of speech is pocket flask?
- Pocket flask is a noun.
- What is the plural of pocket flask?
- The plural of pocket flask is pocket flasks.
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