Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

big pocket

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: big pock-et
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, pocket.

noun

A situation where a ball is lying close to a pocket, such that another ball being potted into that pocket may go in either directly or off the first ball, creating a wider margin of error than normal, and hence the illusion that the pocket is bigger than normal.

Inflected Forms

big pockets (plural)

Questions

What does big pocket mean?: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, pocket.

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