English

Alternative forms

• pocket-flask

Noun

pocket flask ‎(plural pocket flasks)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• (flat metal container for liquor): hip-pocket flask, hip flask

Translations

References

• "pocket flask" at OneLook® Dictionary Search.