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How to pronounce pickpocket in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cutpurse, dip
Type of stealer, thief

Examples of pickpocket

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Together, Candlish and Arno have drawn up a profile of the topflight pickpocket.
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To play against Johnson is to go to the circus and have the clown pickpocket you.
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Its like saying a pickpocket loses money if you hide it where he can't find it.
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This enabled their pickpocket pals to slip out the door with patrons'wallets.
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At 13 he left home, and by 17 he was prospering as a pickpocket, pimp and smuggler.
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Sam Fuller cast him as the pickpocket in the memorably lurid Pickup on South Street.
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One day, he spots a pickpocket robbing Charles Langdon, a passenger aboard his ship.
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Dodger is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that respect.
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At first he was part of a pickpocket gang that targeted people at the races.
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  • A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
  • Picking pockets without a person's knowledge and approval is a crime, a form of larceny which involves the stealing of money and valuables from the person of a victim without their noticing the theft at the time. It requires considerable dexterity and a knack for misdirection. ...
  • Pickpocket was a six-track cassette tape by Manchester post-punk band Ludus, released by New Hormones in 1981. It came packaged with a limited-edition booklet and badge.
  • Pickpocket is a 1959 French film directed by Robert Bresson, loosely based on the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It stars the young Uruguayan Martin LaSalle, who was a nonprofessional actor at the time, in the title role, with Marika Green as the ingu00E9nue. It was the first film for which Bresson wrote an original screenplay rather than "adapting it from an existing text."
  • One who steals from the pocket of a passerby. Usually using sleight of hand as a means; To pick pockets; to steal
  • (pickpocketer) A pickpocket
  • To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed in harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her pocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person's envy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through these evil machinations, unless she keeps her ...
  • [V], FO away, PO > NDS, moves back towards signer while changing to [V:] as if stealing from back pocket + [B] pats back pocket. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - pickpocket.