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pocket flasks

pocket flasks is the plural of pocket flask.

Meaning of pocket flask

Noun

pocket flask (plural pocket flasks)

  1. (dated) 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

Questions about pocket flasks

What is pocket flasks the plural of?
Pocket flasks is the plural of pocket flask.

Words near pocket flasks in the dictionary

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  9. pocket handkerchief
  10. pocket handkerchiefs
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