pocketted
pocketted is the simple past and past participle of pocket.
Meaning of pocket
Verb
pocket (third-person singular simple present pockets, present participle pocketing or (rare) pocketting, simple past and past participle pocketed or (rare) pocketted)
- To put (something) into a pocket.
- [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- Synonyms:
- pot
- To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
- Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
- Synonyms:
- trouser
- To put up with; to bear without complaint.
- As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register, page 557
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pocketted (page history and authors); pocket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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