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Meaning of hindpocket | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A pocket located in the rear; back pocket

Examples

““Whisht! whisht!” said Fogarty. “Mr. Fin is a real gentleman every inch of him, and sometimes touchy with strangerscarries a brace of pops, as he calls them, in his big coat hindpockets, ready loadedcan snuff a candle across his own lawn, […]”
“At the same time he searches for his proof: in his hindpockets were contained articles of reviews and romances of M. Paul de Kock: […]”
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 !” […]”
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 dancinglike a Ghoul in an Eastern tale.”
Humbly shall I Spit at thee, Crawling my Hand at your HindPocket, as you Kisse Me.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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