Pocketing
['pɑkɪt]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pocket
Editor: Meredith
Examples
- There is a dreadful amount of forcible scrubbing and arranging and pocketing implied in some socialisms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But I suppose you're too busy pocketing the ready money, to think of the debtors, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A pick-pocketing case, your worship. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was too late to do it now, however; so he shook his head gravely, and, pocketing the five guineas, withdrew. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Editor: Meredith