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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