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Definition of Pickpocket
1. Noun. A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.
Definition of Pickpocket
1. n. One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
Definition of Pickpocket
1. Noun. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand. ¹
2. Verb. To pick pockets; to steal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pickpocket
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickpocket
Literary usage of Pickpocket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... the Life of Colonel Jack, who was born a gentleman but. was bred a pickpocket.
... pickpocket ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Like enough," returned Stone. " That accounts why he has the credit of being such
a nipper."—A, C. Grant: Bush Life in Queensland. Also a pickpocket ..."
3. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"The pickpocket [v. 4 = 63]. Two thieves go to hear the Law. ... The pickpocket
calls his companion a simpleton for failing to take advantage of such a ..."
4. John Chinaman and a Few Others by Edward Harper Parker (1902)
"One morning Old Lew came in, flushed %vith indignant excitement, to say that he
had been robbed of his spectacles by a fob-snipper (=pickpocket, ..."
5. The Life of William Wilberforce by Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce (1838)
"... the swell mob on the trial of a pickpocket?" As the holidays approached, he
wrote to Hannah More. " My dear Friend, " London, July 14, 1823. ..."
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