pocket watch

See also: pocketwatch and pocket-watch

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Noun

pocket watch (plural pocket watches)

  1. A watch carried in the pocket, often with a closing cover and usually attached to a chain.
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pocket watch (third-person singular simple present pocket watches, present participle pocket watching, simple past and past participle pocket watched)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To jealously obsess over another person's finances or success.
    Pocket watching a high schooler is crazy.
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