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pocket protectors

pocket protectors is the plural of pocket protector.

Meaning of pocket protector

Noun

pocket protector (plural pocket protectors)

  1. A sheath, usually of plastic, designed to fit in a shirt pocket and hold pens and other small implements, preventing them from tearing or staining the shirt.
    • Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.2009, J. Scott Turner, The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, page 15
  2. (US, metonymically, slang) A white-collar technical worker such as a scientist or engineer, especially in military and space applications; a nerd or someone with a nerdy job.
    • It was a pocket-protector paradise, its culture defined by the HP way: paternal, collaborative, entrepreneurial, community minded and inconspicuous.2005, Time

Questions about pocket protectors

What is pocket protectors the plural of?
Pocket protectors is the plural of pocket protector.

Words near pocket protectors in the dictionary

  1. pocket pistols
  2. pocket plum
  3. pocket plums
  4. pocket pool
  5. pocket protector
  6. pocket protectors
  7. pocket pussies
  8. pocket pussy
  9. pocket rocket
  10. pocket rockets
  11. pocket shrapnel

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