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Definition: To pocket a ball
Pocket
\Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Pocketed; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Pocketing.]
1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the
change.
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He would pocket the expense of the license.
--Sterne.
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2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
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He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long
been dead. --Macaulay.
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To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket
of the table.
To pocket an insult,
affront, etc., to receive an affront
without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
“I
must pocket up these wrongs.” --Shak.
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