pocketer
pocketer noun: one who pockets something, or (figurative) appropriates money or goods.
Noun
pocketer (plural pocketers)
- One who pockets something, or (figurative) appropriates money or goods.
- He did not tell the “thinking people,” that he himself was one of the great receivers and pocketers of the said salvage. Yet, at the time when he wrote, he and his sons were, and they now are, in the receipt annually of public money […]1828, William Cobbett, Paper against Gold, page 296
Forms of pocketer
| plural | pocketers |
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Origin of pocketer
From pocket + -er.
Questions about pocketer
- What does pocketer mean?
- Pocketer means one who pockets something, or (figurative) appropriates money or goods.
- What part of speech is pocketer?
- Pocketer is a noun.
- What is the plural of pocketer?
- The plural of pocketer is pocketers.
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