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Noun: pocket battleship  'pó-kit 'ba-t(u)l,ship
  1. A small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)
    "The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled off Montevideo in 1939"

Derived forms: pocket battleships

Type of: battleship, battlewagon

Encyclopedia: Pocket battleship