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pocket
Noun
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A pocket is a small empty space, usually in your clothes, usually to carry things in.
I usually put my keys in my pants' pocket, but I can't find them now.
My cell phone is in the outside pocket of my bag.
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A pocket is a small area of something that is completely surrounded by something else.
There was a small pocket of air under the boat.
There is a pocket of Welsh-speaking villages in South Wales.
pocket
Verb
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If you pocket something you put it in your pocket.
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If you pocket something you win, take, or steal it (and put it in your pocket.)
flap
Noun
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A flap is something that is long and loose that moves, often covering something.
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A flap is when people get excited and talk about something that happened.
The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
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Flap is the movement of anything long and loose, or the sound made from it.
He opened the door with a flap.
I can hear the flap of the flag, it must be windy.
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A flap is the part of the airplane wing that moves.
The pilot put the flaps up so the plan would go up.
flap
Verb
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If you flap something, you move something long back and forward.
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If you flap, you move loosely back and forward.
The bird flapped its wings.
The flag flapped in the wind.