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pocket protector

noun

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  1. A sheath, usually of plastic, designed to fit in a shirt pocket and hold pens and other…

    A sheath, usually of plastic, designed to fit in a shirt pocket and hold pens and other small implements, preventing them from tearing or staining the shirt.

    • Common numbers like distances would never be expressed in megameters or nanomiles — it would bring us too close to the Dilbertian world of pocket protectors and calculator holsters.

  2. A white-collar technical worker such as a scientist or engineer, especially in military…

    A white-collar technical worker such as a scientist or engineer, especially in military and space applications; a nerd or someone with a nerdy job.

    • It was a pocket-protector paradise, its culture defined by the HP way: paternal, collaborative, entrepreneurial, community minded and inconspicuous.
    • My dad is head of the math department at UCLA. Yes, that is where all the pocket protectors go to meet other pocket protectors.
    • The pocket protectors were clearly jubilant. Magic could hear some celebrating in the background of the transmission.

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