Meaning

1 senses

  1. (slang)To jealously obsess over another person's finances or success.

    Pocket watching a high schooler is crazy.

Examples

13 sentences

  1. Tom checked the time on his pocket watch.

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  2. Neither Tom nor Mary has a pocket watch.

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  3. I have a pocket watch that my grandfather gave me.

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  4. Tom pawned the pocket watch his grandfather had given him.

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  5. Tom pawned the pocket watch he had gotten from his grandfather.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

pocket watches, pocket watching, pocket watched, pocket watched
Base formpocket watch · to pocket watch
3rd person singularpocket watches
Present participlepocket watching
Past simplepocket watched
Past participlepocket watched

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypocket watch
he, she, itpocket watches

Past simpleLesson

all personspocket watched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pocket watched
he, she, ithas pocket watched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pocket watch

Word family

1 related words
Relatedhate-watch

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
poacherpocketA1pockmarkedpodpodcast
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