A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
To put (something) into a pocket.
[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
A surname.
I derived from this speech that Mr. Herbert Pocket (for Herbert was the pale young gentleman's name) still rather confounded his intention with his execution.
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French poche...
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To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
Smaller or more compact than usual.
pocket battleship
Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
a pocket pair of kings