'To pocket an insult' definitions:
Definition of 'To pocket an insult'
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- Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.]
- 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. [1913 Webster]
- He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. [1913 Webster]
- He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table.
- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]