Talk:pocket

A billards table needs no pockets, as do pool and snooker tables. In the past special-made fitted plugs to stopper the pockets and extend both the table surface and the cushions were available to convert a pool table into a billiards table; I haven't seen such since the late 1950s. In the US South and West, it is true that "billards table" for decades has been applied also to pool tables. I don't remember ever hearing, however, "shoot billards" rather than "play billards", or, for that matter, to refer to playing billards as "stroking a few" as is common slang for shooting pool. Wayne Roberson, Austin, Texas 02:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)


 * "pool" is Pocket billiards ... "billiards" might refer to either pocket billiards or carom billiards in any given usage. Robert Ullmann 15:37, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

pocket
The 3rd adjectival sense, added by new editor Questionmenot, with goofy example sentence:
 * Under control, in good order, sorted.
 * They always ensured the ding was pocket in time for the party.

This sense of "pocket" is not in the OED, and neither is any sense of "ding" that would work here. Sounds like malarkey to me. Is there some place on this planet where these usages exist? -- WikiPedant 05:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I would question the other two adjectival senses as well. Not because I don't think the definitions are correct, but because I don't think they're adjectives at all. --Ptcamn 05:30, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * They probably can be reasonably regarded as attributive uses of the noun, although the OED does classify these two senses as adjectival (probably on the grounds that they are now sufficiently well established in the language). Anyhow, the most problematic sense, by far, continues to be number 3.  -- WikiPedant 06:04, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Deleted that third sense. Equinox ◑ 22:42, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Beer parlour convo
--Barytonesis (talk) 13:10, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Beer_parlour/2017/May

(U.S., politics) retain piece of legislation
(U.S., politics) to retain a legislative bill without signing it, especially as a president, in order to stop it becoming approved by Congress --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:32, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: February–March 2022
"To shoplift; to steal. The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond." This appears to be sense 1, placing into a pocket. He wouldn't be "pocketing the diamond" if he ran with it in the open, or placed it in a sack, right? Equinox ◑ 02:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree it seems a somewhat redundant and dubious sense, I nearly RFV-ed it just now when I removed the outdated tag requesting an example for this sense in fact. Overlordnat1 (talk) 03:13, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I think this sense is probably redundant to sense 3 (“ To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own)”). One can pocket something in this sense without literally placing it in a pocket. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with Sgconlaw, you can pocket something without literally putting it in a pocket, but this seems like a more general sense than "shoplift". Finding examples where the place someone pockets something into is explicitly specified is a bit tedious, but online I find e.g. "after pocketing the diamond in her red cap", and cases where someone suspects missing books were pocketed by interns (the books were probably just taken/stolen and not fit into pockets somehow). And, of course, people pocket money even if they put it into a bank account rather than a pocket. - -sche (discuss) 17:44, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-resolved, sense removed as redundant by general agreement. This, that and the other (talk) 02:53, 20 March 2022 (UTC)