pocketbook
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- Scrabble points
- 24
- Words With Friends
- 27
- Letters
- 10
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Definition of pocketbook
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (US)A purse or handbag.
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noun
- (US)A purse or handbag.
- (dated)A wallet for paper money.
- (figuratively)One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.
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A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
“The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.”
“The pocket books are in trouble. A creeping extralegal censorship threatens to bowdlerize the product[…]”
“The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD. The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.”
“"I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."”
- (Philippines, broadly)A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.
Words you can make from pocketbook
71 playable · top: KOPECK (18 pts)
Best play kopeck 18 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
3 words4-letter words
28 words- KECK 14 pts
- BECK 12 pts
- BOCK 12 pts
- KOOK 12 pts
- PECK 12 pts
- POCK 12 pts
- BOOK 10 pts
- COKE 10 pts
- COOK 10 pts
- KEPT 10 pts
- KOBO 10 pts
- POKE 10 pts
- TOCK 10 pts
- COOP 8 pts
- COPE 8 pts
- KETO 8 pts
- KOTO 8 pts
- POCO 8 pts
- TOKE 8 pts
- TOOK 8 pts
- BOOT 6 pts
- COOT 6 pts
- COTE 6 pts
- OBOE 6 pts
- POET 6 pts
- TOCO 6 pts
- TOPE 6 pts
- TOPO 6 pts
3-letter words
26 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
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