Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who steals from pockets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who picks pockets; one who steals, or makes a practice of stealing, from the pockets of others.
- noun A plant, chiefly the shepherd's-purse: so called from its impoverishing the soil. Also
pickpurse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
steals from thepocket of a passerby, usually bysleight of hand . - verb To pick pockets; to
steal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
Etymologies
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Examples
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They ARE cunning, and also funny, entertaining, subversive, charming … I just love how the books position themselves on the margins in all kinds of ways and your image of the pickpocket is great!
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A pickpocket is extra-legal, but it in no way follows that he needs to be faced with extra-legal force.
Balkinization 2006
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Marketing really grabbed on to the line that ends one of the later chapters which used the phrase pickpocket countess.
unknown title 2009
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Thanks for the laugh; oh and yea Pat the pickpocket is my cousin and she says hi Jack!
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The qualifications for a pickpocket are a light tread, a delicate sense of touch, combined with firm nerves.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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He that steals little is called a pickpocket, but he that steals much is called a pillar of the church.
They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923
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A notorious pickpocket could not even be arrested, much less convicted by a civil court, simply on the ground of being commonly known as a pickpocket; while such evidence would convict and expel him from any ordinary society.
13. Legal Rights of Assemblies and Trial of Their Members. 75. Trial of Members of Societies Henry Martyn 1915
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A notorious pickpocket could not even be arrested, much less convicted, by a civil court, simply on the ground of being commonly known as a pickpocket; while such evidence would convict and expel him from any ordinary society.
Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies Henry M. Robert 1880
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Cameron and colleagues then compared the genes of the two fly groups and identified a gene called pickpocket 28
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The girl felt some one feeling, as she supposed, for her pocket-book, and she started to run, yelling, "pickpocket," and left the burning polonaise in Mr. Field's hands.
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