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/ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/ · noun
One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand..
Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.
For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.
Use pick pocket when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pick pocket means One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand..
Common synonyms include cutpurse, dip, dipper, foist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.
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