/ˈpɒkɪt/
/ˈpɑːkɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pocket | /ˈpɒkɪt/ /ˈpɑːkɪt/ |
| he / she / it pockets | /ˈpɒkɪts/ /ˈpɑːkɪts/ |
| past simple pocketed | /ˈpɒkɪtɪd/ /ˈpɑːkɪtɪd/ |
| past participle pocketed | /ˈpɒkɪtɪd/ /ˈpɑːkɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form pocketing | /ˈpɒkɪtɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːkɪtɪŋ/ |
- pocket something to put something into your pocket
- She paid for the drink and pocketed the change without counting it.
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- pocket something to take or keep something, especially an amount of money, that does not belong to you
- He regularly charges passengers more than the normal fare and pockets the difference.
- pocket something to earn or win an amount of money
- Last year, she pocketed over $1 million in advertising contracts.
- She pocketed £500 for coming second.
- pocket something (in the games of billiards, pool and snooker) to hit a ball into a pocket synonym pot
put into pocket
money
in billiards, etc.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘bag, sack’, also used as a measure of quantity): from Anglo-Norman French poket(e), diminutive of poke ‘pouch’. The verb dates from the late 16th cent.
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