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hindpocket en · NOUN

Etymology

From hind- + pocket.

Meanings

1. A pocket located in the rear; back pocket
   • There is a German Graf von Herrenshausen, a large, yellow-bearded, blear-eyed monster, with a frogged coat and a huge pipe-stick projecting from the hindpocket, who kisses my hand whenever we meet, and leers at me from the whist-table – for, happily, he is past dancing — like a Ghoul in an Eastern tale. 1904, Charles James Lever, Novels: The Dodd family abroad:
   • Humbly shall I Spit at thee, Crawling my Hand at your HindPocket, as you Kisse Me. 2012, Amelia Rosselli, Jennifer Scappettone, Loco Motrix:
   • “Whisht! whisht!” said Fogarty. “Mr. Fin is a real gentleman every inch of him, and sometimes touchy with strangers—carries a brace of pops, as he calls them, in his big coat hindpockets, ready loaded—can snuff a candle across his own lawn, […] 1835, Fraser's Magazine, volume 11:
   • At the same time he searches for his proof: in his hindpockets were contained articles of reviews and romances of M. Paul de Kock: […] 1844, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review - Volume 164:
   • The old professor put his hand to the hindpocket of his coat to search for the Homer, which was his vade-mecum, when the unfortunate empiric threw up the window and cried out, “Stop, stop, coachman, and There's a man here !” […] 1868, The Shamrock, volumes 3-4:

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