pocket flask
See also: pocket-flask
English
Alternative forms
Noun
pocket flask (plural pocket flasks)
- (dated) 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.
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book 2, chapter 1
- 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.
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book 2, chapter 1
Synonyms
- (flat metal container for liquor): hip-pocket flask, hip flask
Translations
pocket-size container for alcoholic beverages — see hip flask
References
- "pocket flask" at OneLook® Dictionary Search.
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