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Definition of Pickpockets
1. pickpocket [n] - See also: pickpocket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickpockets
Literary usage of Pickpockets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"Women and Sabbath breaking repented of. Some few Penitential Drops fall under
the Gallows. Sheriffs Men, Parson. pickpockets, Criminals, all very busie. ..."
2. The Women of New York; Or, The Under-world of the Great City: Illustrating by George Ellington (1869)
"FEMALE pickpockets AND ... (EMALE pickpockets are not abundant in New York. ...
make as good pickpockets as those of the opposite sex. ..."
3. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1824)
"Recorder Fleetwood to Lord Treasurer Burghley upon Sessions Proceedings of the
City, a School for pickpockets in London, fyc. ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Resorts of pickpockets and Thieves — How River Thieves Operate — A Midnight
Expedition — An Evil Region—Young Ruffians and Sneak Thieves—Patroling the ..."
5. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Floating on a Plank — Underground Resorts of pickpockets and Thieves — How
River Thieves Operate — A Midnight Expedition — An Evil Region—Young Ruffians ..."
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