hip pocket
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhipandpocket
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hip
adjective
uk/hɪp/us/hɪp/
fashionable:
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pocket
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɒk.ɪt/us/ˈpɑː.kɪt/
a small bag for carrying things in, made of cloth and sewn into the inside or onto the outside of a piece ...
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(Definition ofhipandpocketfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhip pocket
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The only way to judge a man is by his record, not by what he carried in hishippocket.
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I thought it was a thing you carried in yourhippocketto use against another fellow.
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It is the sort of book one would not wish to try to put in one'shippocketor even in one's brief case.
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A man once said that the most sensitive nerve in the human body was thehippocketnerve.
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If a person is carying a bottle in hishippocketit is extremely difficult to "frisk" him and 40,000 or 50,000 other people.
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The danger is that consumer consultative councils should be thought to be riding in thehippocketof the industries they serve.
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That is because people no longer keep pound notes carefully in a separate segment of a wallet or in ahippocketas they used to, separate from their coins.
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It will be burgundy not dark blue, it will be a bit smaller, fitting easily into ahippocket, and the cover will be durable but also somewhat flexible.
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At other times when their hip pockets were bulging, or when their religious sensibilities were not upset, they were more than willing to accept the political status-quo.
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Of course, gentlemen who have hip pockets can always carry a considerable amount of liquor with them.
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What we hear about the little silly fools with flasks in their hip pockets does not matter in the least.
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Trousers has 2 inter hip pockets and 2 cargo pockets on legs.
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The blue trousers are cut along the lines of civilian dress trousers, with a high waist and without pleats, cuffs, or hip pockets.
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The undress tailcoat is fitted with scallop-flapped hip pockets with three gilt buttons on each pocket.
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The frontmost portion of the jacket has two large hip pockets and two medium-sized breast pockets.
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The trousers have two cargo pockets on the legs and two hip pockets.
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