Pocketing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              He would pocket the expense of the license.
                                                    --Sterne.
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     2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
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              He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long
              been dead.                            --Macaulay.
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     {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.
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