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pocketer en · NOUN

Etymology

From pocket + -er.

Meanings

1. One who pockets something, or (figurative) appropriates money or goods.
   • He did not tell the “thinking people,” that he himself was one of the great receivers and pocketers of the said salvage. Yet, at the time when he wrote, he and his sons were, and they now are, in the receipt annually of public money […] 1828, William Cobbett, Paper against Gold, page 296:

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