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Definition of pocket-flask in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of pocket flask
- hip-pocket flask
- A pocket flask
I saw Lorna drink lemonade into which liquor had been poured from a hip-pocket flask.
- pocket flask
- A flat metal container for alcoholic beverages, with a narrow neck suitable for use as a drinking spout, designed to fit into a man's pocket and popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
The traveller had been at the pains of going a long way up-stairs to his sleeping-room to fetch his pocket-flask of brandy.