Pickpocket

/ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/ · noun

Meaning

One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
2. (transitive) To pick pockets; to steal.

Example Sentences

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.

Synonyms for pickpocket

Antonyms for pickpocket

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Word Forms

• pickpockets
• pick-pocket
• pickpocketing
• pickpocketed

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