See Also: air pocket(dictionary)
hip pocket(dictionary)
pocket(2)(dictionary)
pocket(1)(dictionary)
Pocket(money)
Pocket(medicine)
pocket 3, adjective(dictionary)
pocket 2, verb(dictionary)
pocket 1, noun(dictionary)
out-of-pocket expenses(dictionary)

pocket(2) (iou)



pocket verb. L16.
[from the noun.]
I. verb trans.
Put into one's pocket; confine or enclose in a small space as in a pocket. Also foll. by up. L16.
J. M. Coetzee I withdraw, locking the door behind me and pocketing the key.
fig. Take or accept (an affront etc.) without showing resentment; submit to, endure meekly; conceal or suppress (pride, anger, or another feeling); rare refrain from publishing (a report, letter, etc.). Formerly also foll. by up. L16.
Take possession of for one's own, appropriate, esp. dishonestly. M17.
A. Djoleto He had pocketed two hundred pounds in a day through overpricing.
Drive (a ball) into one of the pockets of a billiard- or snooker-table. M18.
Provide with pockets. Usu. in pass. L19.
Medicine. Form into a pouch or cavity. rare. L19.
Hem in (a competitor) during a race so as to remove the chance of winning. L19.
Sunday Pictorial This horse was hopelessly pocketed..and got through too late.
II. verb intrans.
Form or pucker into pocket-like folds. Chiefly as pocketing ppl adjective. E17.
pocketa'bility noun the capacity to be put or carried in a pocket L20.
pocketable adjective able to be put or carried in a pocket L17.
pocketableness noun (rare) = pocketability L19.
pocketer noun E19.