pocket-sized

pocket-sized
pock·et-sized (pŏkʹĭt-sīzd') or pock·et·size (-sīz') adj.
1. Of a size suitable to be carried in a pocket:

a pocket-sized radio.

2. Small: “a pocket-sized riot in the Lower House” (Terence Smith).

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