The Collaborative International Dictionary
To pocket an insult
Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.]
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To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
He would pocket the expense of the license.
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To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead.
--Macaulay.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.