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pocketknives

pocketknives is the plural of pocketknife.

Meaning of pocketknife

Noun

pocketknife (plural pocketknives)

  1. A knife small enough for carrying safely and handily in a pocket; usually a folding knife (with blades or tools that the user can fold or retract into the handle).
    • Jimmy had a pocketknife, and he wandered into the drawing-room with it one day, alone, and reduced ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture to an indeterminable value in rather less than three-quarters of an hour.1878, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad; About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
    Synonyms:
    jack-knife

Questions about pocketknives

What is pocketknives the plural of?
Pocketknives is the plural of pocketknife.

Words near pocketknives in the dictionary

  1. pockethandkerchieves
  2. pocketing
  3. pocketing up
  4. pocketings
  5. pocketknife
  6. pocketknives
  7. pocketless
  8. pocketlight
  9. pocketlights
  10. pocketlike
  11. pocketphone

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