pocket

Forms

1.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.
2.A person's financial resources.
- I paid for it out of my own pocket.
- There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.
3.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.
- Tom put the key into his pocket.
4.An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.

1.To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).(informal)
- The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
- Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
- The store manager, a woman in her 50s, saw Sasaki pocket the condoms and detained him at the entrance to the store, while another employee called police.
2.To put (something) into a pocket.
3.To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

Common· #1836

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *puhô

Frankish *pokōbor.

Old French poche

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Latin -ittus

Old French -ete

Anglo-Norman poketbor.

Middle English pocket

English pocket