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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pocket-sized
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the latest clash of pocket-sized titans is Nintendo's GameBoy versus Atari's Lynx.
▪ Standing between the high gray sky and the pocket-sized pool, I feel omnipotent.
▪ The cassette-player was pocket-sized and dented where Pascoe had trodden on it.
▪ The Olau Hollandia has a pocket-sized swimming-pool in the bowels, luxurious cabins aloft and couchette-style below.
▪ This is a pocket-sized encyclopedia of biking information.
Wiktionary
pocket-sized

a. 1 small enough to fit into a pocket 2 (context idiomatic English) small-scale, downsized

WordNet
pocket-sized
  1. adj. limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size]

  2. small enough to be carried in a garment pocket; "pocket-size paperbacks" [syn: pocket-size, pocketable]

Usage examples of "pocket-sized".

Jackdaw, typical of the pocket-sized pubs still to be found by the score in Brighton.

As she looked over at Yun Yun now, she saw that her grandmother was meticulously trimming Kleenex squares in half with a pocket-sized pair of scissors, then daintily refolding and stashing the tissues up her sleeve for later use.

While the computer chewed on his request, he walked back to his pocket-sized kitchen, opened the microwave, and grabbed a fork from a nearby drawer.

They came at last to a pocket-sized pass and Gorgol picked from between two rocks there a small hide pouch lined with frawn fabric, smelling of some aromatic herb.

The trees screened the pocket-sized meadow, reaching a rocky cleft where the mist curled in a long tongue through a wall twice Travis' height.

Tinker spent the next two hours checking out the ambient levels of microwave radiation in the area, setting out a series of pocket-sized detectors on the dusty regolith.