Pickpocket

Quick meaning: Pickpocket is a noun meaning One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• pickpockets
• pick-pocket
• pickpocketing
• pickpocketed

Synonyms for pickpocket

Depending on context, synonyms include cutpurse, dip, dipper, foist, footpad, gonoph.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cutpurse, dip, thief, taker, pick-pocket, reverse pickpocket.

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