pocket protector
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
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.
American usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It was a pocket-protector paradise, its culture defined by the HP way: paternal, collaborative, entrepreneurial, community minded and inconspicuous."
- "My dad is head of the math department at UCLA. Yes, that is where all the pocket protectors go to meet other pocket protectors."
- "The pocket protectors were clearly jubilant. Magic could hear some celebrating in the background of the transmission."