Pockets are holes with pockets on the sides of billiard tables. Not all billiard tables have pockets (for example, carambole billiards). Games that do use pockets are called "pocket billiards", and the goal is usually shoot balls into the pockets.

Pockets might have bags to hold the balls or lead to rails inside the table, where balls roll down falling into a drawer. These are common in coin-based tables found regularly in bars. The pockets are usually made of Plastic or leather and can be connected into a ball-return which channels all the pocketed balls into one chamber on a side of the table.

The word "pocket" might be used as a verb, meaning "to sink" a ball, that is, to throw it into the pocket. (eg. "I'm pocketing the Eight ball.")

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