But its high-gloss surface was so delicate, pocket lint could scratch it.

In some contexts, pocket lint may also refer to random items in one's pocket.

Instead we have draconian DRM and services like Spotify etc that offers exactly nothing plus pocket lint for the artists.

In a survival situation, pocket lint can be used as kindling for starting a fire.

Passersby saw him talking to himself and playing with pocket lint.

I found a stubby pencil in my jacket, down with the pocket lint and old movie ticket stubs.

And so the 160-acre claim seems like pocket lint, until the clan's long history in the Pahrump Valley is considered.

Not only that, but the pocket lint from jeans starts gumming up the works after a while.

I know it picks up pocket lint, but where else was I going to carry it?

"A spy could remove a hard disk, grind it up and smuggle out the data in little pieces like pocket lint," he says.