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fill one's pockets

fill one's pockets verb: to make money.

Verb

fill one's pockets (third-person singular simple present fills one's pockets, present participle filling one's pockets, simple past and past participle filled one's pockets)

  1. To make money
    • “Yes, there’s that heart too. Tripe and heart, that’s all they give us. Fine fare that is! Is that justice or is it not?”//“Yes, the food’s bad.”//“He’s filling his pockets, I warrant.”//“It’s not your business.”1920, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The House of the Dead

Forms of fill one's pockets

third-person singular presentfills one's pockets
present participlefilling one's pockets
past participlefilled one's pockets
pastfilled one's pockets

Questions about fill one's pockets

What does fill one's pockets mean?
Fill one's pockets means to make money.
What part of speech is fill one's pockets?
Fill one's pockets is a verb.
What is the past tense of fill one's pockets?
The past tense of fill one's pockets is filled one's pockets.

Words near fill one's pockets in the dictionary

  1. fill music
  2. fill one's boots
  3. fill one's face
  4. fill one's hand
  5. fill one's pants
  6. fill one's pockets
  7. fill or kill
  8. fill or kills
  9. fill out
  10. fill site
  11. fill soil

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