WordNet
n. a pocket on the side of a billiard table
Wikipedia
is a pocket billiards video game originally released into arcades by Data East in 1986. The arcade version was eventually ported to six home console platforms and two sequels to the game were produced, as well as a spin-off series called Pocket Gal. G-Mode currently owns the intellectual property rights to the Side Pocket series, and licenses these games globally.
Usage examples of "side pocket".
But although The Lemon Drop Kid now works for a very great old skinflint who even squawks about The Lemon Drop Kid's habit of filling his side pocket now and then with lemon drops out of a jar on the shelf in the store, The Lemon Drop Kid is very happy, for the truth of the matter is he loves Miss Alicia Deering, and it is the first time in his life he ever loves anybody, or anything.
I took it off the wall and slipped it into the side pocket of my jacket.
Leaning over his cue, he lined up his shot carefully, then sent the cue ball the length of the table, banking it off the far end so it came back, glanced the six ball into the side pocket, then sent the four ball into the corner pocket that lay only a couple of inches from where the shot had begun.
Slightly crimson around the cheekbones, Carmichael reholstered the shears and dropped them into the side pocket of his topcoat.
His breath frosted in the air while he poked among the newspapers and Styrofoam cups in the basket, then lifted the pizza box, plucked up the thick envelope, tested its heft, glanced around, and stuck it in a side pocket.
He put an extra packet of bullets into the side pocket of his coat.
With a dour glance at Calhoun he put it in a side pocket and gathered up the scattered money.
The switch was in the right side pocket of his shorts, and his shorts, along with his other clothes and those of his companions, lay in a heap under the springboard at the edge of the pool.
Slowly, silently the Wolf worked his hands to the side pocket, drew out the knife and cut the cords that bound his wrists.