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Encyclopedia > Deep pocket

Outdated American slang term; it usually means "extensive financial wealth or resources". It is usually used in reference to big companies or organizations (ex: the American tobacco companies have "deep pockets"), although it can be used in reference to individuals (i.e., Bill Gates, Donald Trump).


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Deep pocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (327 words)
Deep pocket is an outdated American slang term; it usually means "extensive financial wealth or resources".
The deep pocket is often the target defendant in a lawsuit, even when the true (moral) cupability is with another party because the deep pocket has money to pay a verdict.
Deep pocket is a concept often used in the law and economics of tort law.
Re: Deep Pockets/Short arms (591 words)
Deep Pockets never wanted to pay for anything, hence they couldn't get to their money in time to pay for anything because their pockets were so deep.
Deep Pockets, of course, and your circle of friends would know what you meant.
Someone with *deep pockets* was very cheap; this meaning is quite different from the meaning the expression took on by the 1980s, when it was used largely to describe a wealthy or well-insured potential defendant in a lawsuit.
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