ALL meanings of pocketing
pock·et·ing
P p - noun pocketing a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles. 1
- noun pocketing a bag or pouch. 1
- noun pocketing means; financial resources: a selection of gifts to fit every pocket. 1
- noun pocketing any pouchlike receptacle, compartment, hollow, or cavity. 1
- noun pocketing an envelope, receptacle, etc., usually of heavy paper and open at one end, used for storing or preserving photographs, stamps, phonograph records, etc.: Each album has 12 pockets. 1
- noun pocketing a recess, as in a wall, for receiving a sliding door, sash weights, etc. 1
- noun pocketing any isolated group, area, element, etc., contrasted, as in status or condition, with a surrounding element or group: pockets of resistance; a pocket of poverty in the central city. 1
- noun pocketing Mining. a small orebody or mass of ore, frequently isolated. a bin for ore or rock storage. a raise or small slope fitted with chute gates. 1
- noun pocketing Billiards, Pool. any of the pouches or bags at the corners and sides of the table. 1
- noun pocketing a position in which a competitor in a race is so hemmed in by others that his or her progress is impeded. 1
- noun pocketing Football. the area from which a quarterback throws a pass, usually a short distance behind the line of scrimmage and protected by a wall of blockers. 1
- noun pocketing Bowling. the space between the headpin and the pin next behind to the left or right, taken as the target for a strike. 1
- noun pocketing Baseball. the deepest part of a mitt or glove, roughly in the area around the center of the palm, where most balls are caught. 1
- noun pocketing Nautical. a holder consisting of a strip of sailcloth sewed to a sail, and containing a thin wooden batten that stiffens the leech of the sail. 1
- noun pocketing Anatomy. any saclike cavity in the body: a pus pocket. 1
- noun pocketing stage pocket. 1
- noun pocketing an English unit of weight for hops equivalent to 168 pounds (76.4 kg). 1
- adjective pocketing small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch. 1
- adjective pocketing relatively small; smaller than usual: a pocket war; a pocket country. 1
- verb with object pocketing to put into one's pocket: to pocket one's keys. 1
- verb with object pocketing to take possession of as one's own, often dishonestly: to pocket public funds. 1
- verb with object pocketing to submit to or endure without protest or open resentment: to pocket an insult. 1
- verb with object pocketing to conceal or suppress: to pocket one's pride. 1
- verb with object pocketing to enclose or confine in or as if in a pocket: The town was pocketed in a small valley. 1
- verb with object pocketing Billiards, Pool. to drive (a ball) into a pocket. 1
- abbreviation POCKETING pocket-veto. 1
- verb with object pocketing to hem in (a contestant) so as to impede progress, as in racing. 1
- idioms pocketing in one's pocket, in one's possession; under one's influence: He has the audience in his pocket. 1
- idioms pocketing line one's pockets, to profit, especially at the expense of others: While millions were fighting and dying, the profiteers were lining their pockets. 1
- idioms pocketing out of pocket, having suffered a financial loss; poorer: He had made unwise land purchases, and found himself several thousand dollars out of pocket. lacking money. Informal. not available; unreachable: I'll be out of pocket all afternoon. 1