- To put (something) into a pocket.
- To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own). · Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.· The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
- To put up with; to bear without complaint.
He/she/it pockets · Past pocketed · Past participle pocketed · -ing form pocketing
Verb forms
- Base form
- He/she/it
- pockets
- Past
- pocketed
- Past participle
- pocketed
- -ing form
- pocketing
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Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
“What else have you got in your pocket?” he went on, turning to Alice.
“What day of the month is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
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