Meaning of pocket protector | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 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.
   US, metonymically, slang

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Examples

“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.”

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