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Meanings of pocket-size in English

Limited in size or scope.

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Small enough to be carried in a garment pocket.

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Usage of pocket-size in English
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Barretts has books available in three different sizes, from the minuscule to the pocket-size.
Wired
2
The pocket-size shop often hosts live performances on Friday afternoons.
The Irish Times
3
OK, it's really just a pocket-size notebook for odd jottings.
Wired
4
Judging that the morning haze would veil any smoke, Shann built a pocket-size fire.
Storm Over Warlock
5
He made pocket-size cartons, filled with whole ones, crafty man!
The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
6
Each time Topher turned his back, the creep was snapping photos with a pocket-size digital.
Break No Bones
7
In person, she's a pocket-size dynamo whose staff struggle to keep up with her mile-a-minute energy.
The Irish Times
8
I promise it won't take long. He opened a pocket-size spiral notebook and readied a ballpoint.
G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
9
The so-called octavo format was a departure from previous manuscripts because it was handy, portable, and pocket-size.
Wired
10
On the top of it rested a smaller book, of the pocket-size, entitled "Private Accounts."
Jezebel's Daughter
11
Charlie handed him a pocket-size sketch pad.
The irresistible henry house
12
Victor produced a pocket-size video camera.
Three stations: an arkady renko novel
13
The idea of pocket-size PCs has remained a fiction largely because of the power needed to drive high-speed chips.
The Irish Times
14
Am speaking into a new pocket-size recorder that Dad brought down and gave to me as a graduation present.
My Life, My Tapes
15
He issued pocket-size booklets that were distributed in buses in 2011 as the cartel sought to create a social base.
The Guardian
16
And more mirrors, mostly pocket-size, arranged so that he could see himself staring in bewilderment at this gallery of...of what?
The strain
Pocket-size through the time