subs. (rhyming slang).—1.  A pocket: also SKY.

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  1879.  J. W. HORSLEY, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ in Macmillan’s Magazine, XL. 502. A slavey piped [saw] the spoons sticking out of my SKYROCKET [pocket].

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  1893.  P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, xiv. See everything is bono, and keep the split in your SKYROCKET. Ibid., xx. I’d two bob in my SKY, so paid three night’s letty.

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  1898.  BINSTEAD, A Pink ’Un and a Pelican, 237. After thirty-six ’ands ’ad bin all over him … why, even then we never found his SKY!

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  2.  (old).—Eccentricity.

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  1690.  DRYDEN, Mistakes, Prologue. [Works (Globe), 473].

        He’s no high-flyer—he makes no SKY-ROCKETS,
His squibs are only levelled at your pockets.

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