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pockets up

pockets up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pocket up.

Meaning of pocket up

Verb

pocket up (third-person singular simple present pockets up, present participle pocketing up, simple past and past participle pocketed up)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete, transitive) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
    • Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongsc. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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What is pockets up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pockets up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pocket up.

Words near pockets up in the dictionary

  1. pocketpussies
  2. pocketpussy
  3. PocketQube
  4. PocketQubes
  5. pockets
  6. pockets up
  7. pocketsful
  8. pocketted
  9. pocketting
  10. pockettings
  11. pocketwards

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