as in thief
a person who steals money and other things from people's pockets and purses
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Recent Examples of pickpocket
An inside pocket stashes any travel essentials securely and out of the way of potential pickpockets.
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Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2025
The zippered top helps prevent pickpockets, and the back zipper pocket is a great spot for storing valuables like a wallet or phone.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2024
This Travelon anti-theft crossbody bag has a five-point security system and is made with slash-resistant materials that deter sneaky pickpockets.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2024
Arteta hired professional pickpockets to (temporarily) rob his players of their phones and wallets at dinner.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
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Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2025
The zippered top helps prevent pickpockets, and the back zipper pocket is a great spot for storing valuables like a wallet or phone.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2024
This Travelon anti-theft crossbody bag has a five-point security system and is made with slash-resistant materials that deter sneaky pickpockets.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2024
Arteta hired professional pickpockets to (temporarily) rob his players of their phones and wallets at dinner.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for pickpocket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pickpocket
Noun
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The high price of eggs has consumers balking, grocery stores placing limits on what people can buy, and thieves treating them as if hen eggs were Faberge.—
Kevin Williams,
Quartz,
6 Feb. 2025
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Some Fort Worth neighborhoods keep losing internet for weeks because thieves have been stealing copper from cable lines.—
Tasha Tsiaperas,
Axios,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Oh yeah, this relationship with this 38-year-old racketeer is so beautiful.—
Michael Cuby,
Them,
1 Aug. 2024
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While President Herbert Hoover had waged a war against kidnappers and racketeers, Roosevelt amplified the effort dramatically, pushed it in new directions, and overcame the jurisdictional, racial, partisan, and class divisions that had previously obstructed the law-and-order state.—
Anthony Gregory / Made by History,
TIME,
23 July 2024
Noun
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Three Thai women were rescued after a group of Chinese gangsters enslaved them in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in order to harvest their eggs.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Ball of Fire also pairs up a gangster’s moll, Sugarpuss O’Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), and a professor, Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) who work together trying to take down her mob boss boyfriend, all while falling in love.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
People.com,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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When Jennifer Lawrence isn’t full-frontally beating the bejesus out of insouciant hoodlums, that is.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2025
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However, their dreams are threatened by the hoodlums in the Riverbottom Gang.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
30 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Friends and neighbors worried that these rumors could attract dangerous young ruffians who might harm them and steal the money.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
15 Dec. 2024
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Troy Stecher is a puck-mover with some two-way ability but is not considered a ruffian in the corners and in front of the net.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
9 Aug. 2024
Noun
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The investigation leads Cole into an ugly world of red-neck thugs and disappeared girls.—
Sandra Dallas,
The Denver Post,
2 Feb. 2025
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How many of you recall the TV image on Jan. 6, 2021, of Officer Daniel Hodges, squashed in a revolving door at the U.S. Capitol, screaming for help as MAGA thugs beat on his head?—
Trudy Rubin,
The Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Pickpocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pickpocket. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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